This document discusses Platon Slynko's school project on experimentally studying the dynamics and interaction of toroidal vortices in liquids and air. It provides background on vortex theory developed by Thomson and Helmholtz, describing atoms as ring-shaped vortices. The document then discusses the importance of understanding vortex dynamics and formation in describing fluid flows, and how these laws could be extrapolated to processes like electron movement. It outlines several past experimental and computational studies that have explored vortex reconnection and linking/unlinking when vortex rings collide or interact.