How do you verify that your hand is working? Your brain sends signals that propagates to your arm telling it to move, and if you your brain gets the feedback it expects, its working.
Its all signal propagation. For any problem you need to solve, you can only do one thing - send a signal, and hope that the communication lines are working correctly execute on what you want.
Yeah but how do you measure it between two very different trees. What are we measuring and from where. Electric current?
Proximity, chemical composition most likely. Thought you meant about how does a tree verify its connection.
No no. Yeah chemical composition makes sense. Along with soil maybe. Fascinating. Its like they on ham radio and we figuring out tree talk.
Here is the research paper it came from. The Methods he used are in there. Be warned, it’s dry!
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