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Atoms do not exist in any permanent configuration - it is compounded matter which is impermanent. atoms are continually re-positioning themselves with other atoms thus producing different molecules - impermanent phenomena. But atoms themselves are also compounded phenomena being as they are made up of a nucleus and electrons - so they too are impermanent. Scientists have discovered that rather than atoms, matter can be shown to consist of packages of energy, which because they are interdependent can also be regarded as impermanent.