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The Proton Just Got Smaller
inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"
The "Size" of a proton is so ridiculous, like the "size" of a magnetic field. What's the diameter of the earth's magnetosphere?
Blithering idiots. Thinking such backwards things like "matter is solid." Oh, yes, a proton is a tiny, tiny, microscopic pebble... not even. It's a concentrated, stabilized form of energy; vibrations moving in such a way as to hold them together coherently. That's why protons can combine with electrons to form neutrons, and neutrons can emit electrons to form protons (Beta decay).
Oh, yeah, an object with a bigger mass was able to dive deeper into the charge field of a proton. Good job, you got one singularity closer to another singularity than thought possible.
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Try religion! They pick an answer and stick with it, no matter what new and contradictory facts come to light.
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If you americans are finishing school without understanding percentages I'm going to seriously despise your country.
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