For decades, a proton’s radius was believed to measure 0.88 femtometers, but it has just been discovered that the correct measurement is 0.84 femtometers.

I just thought that you'd want to know.

My suspicions are finally confirmed, thank you.

I will rest easy tonight knowing that. I cannot tell you how many times I have laid in bed, unable to sleep, knowing .88 could not be correct.

got a link?

That's what you get when you don't zero in your caliper.

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got a link?

I’d like to see that myself. Sub-atomic particles are fuzzy objects, rather than solid little spheres. Quantum uncertainty.

0.88 - 0.84 is within specs. The universe will be fine.

So Sheldon was right all along.

I was picoseconds away from posting the same thing! Amazing!!

Huh, i might need new glasses, my calibrated eye was seeing 0.89

Is that English femtometers or French femtometers?

Does this affect the 88MPH/1.21 Gigawatts theorem of time travel in any way? I don't want to travel to the Titanic to divert course only to find out I'm already under water.

Forgot to ask, laden or unladen protons?

Thanks! That made my day!

Well that's pretty Positive news there.

I guess that it still goes without saying in the words of Dr. Egon Spengler: "Don't cross the streams. That would be bad. Very bad."

Is it an African or European proton?

Well that explains the recent correction to Jupiter's size. NASA found that Jupiter's radius is actually 71,488 km instead of the long believed 71,492 km.

I harbor no negative feelings about this change. It isn't repulsive to correct errors, and in fact is positively an attractive quality.

I've heard we all shrink with age?

Also Join1440.com isn't an actual scientific journal/reference site, so I'm holding out hope that this viscous rumor is inaccurate.

Wiki may have shortcomings, but at least they cite references. And from those, you are behind by 16, 7 or 4 years depending on your determination point.

Linky

So, not news at all, didn't everyone know this?