Atomic dance captured by electron microscope illuminates Buddhist interdependence

1. This is an explanatory article comparing a study in which two rhenium atoms were observed bonding and vibrating inside a carbon nanotube under an electron microscope to the Buddhist concept of interdependent origination.
2. The study is reported to have been published in "Science Advances" in 2020 by researchers from the University of Nottingham and Ulm University, and tracked atomic bonding using a transmission electron microscope.
3. The article notes that the observation concerns the bonding of atoms, not subatomic particles, and that science offers an analogy for understanding rather than proving Buddhism.

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