it had been at the beginning. But most important, the weight of the soil in the pot remained virtually unchanged. That meant that the 164 pounds of tree had to have come from somewhere else. The Willow Experiment proved that plants aren’t made of dirt. So how do plants make their… plant stuff, if it isn’t from soil? Back to the tiny sprout that just saw the light of day on Earth. Let’s call him Jerry. Jerry was the first to put together a very elegant solution: the ability to transform not soil but air into matter. Jerry combined carbon dioxide (from the air) and water (from the soil, but not
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