A measurement of the size of the proton, obtained using spectroscopy of an exotic atomic system, yields a result of unprecedented accuracy — but in disagreement with values obtained by previous methods.
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Flowers, J. A chink in the armour?. Nature 466, 195–196 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466195a
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Radoslav Bozov
"transition-energy measurement to the proton size" Size of particles is not a constant, neither is the shape. The waves are generated when particles temporal separation causes asymmetric wave generation that travels between atoms determining mass change in expanded space. You can't understand the properties of particle dynamics without expanding in space. To do that, you must compress time from a point where energy can be tracked, fluxomics of negativity. Then the relationship between gluons and the weak force may be calculated.