{"id":95952,"date":"2019-09-08T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/are-protons-smaller-than-we-thought-new-measurement-helps-resolve-mystery"},"modified":"2019-09-08T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:22:42","slug":"are-protons-smaller-than-we-thought-new-measurement-helps-resolve-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/are-protons-smaller-than-we-thought-new-measurement-helps-resolve-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Are Protons Smaller Than We Thought? New Measurement Helps Resolve Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-protons-smaller-than-we-thought-new-measurement-helps-resolve-mystery.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle, resulting in York University research that confirms protons are smaller than expected.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton \u2013 a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists thought they knew the size of the proton, but that changed in 2010 when a team of physicists measured the proton-radius value to be four percent smaller than expected, which confused the scientific community. Since then, the world\u2019s physicists have been scrambling to resolve the proton-radius puzzle \u2013 the inconsistency between these two proton-radius values. This puzzle is an important unsolved problem in fundamental physics today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle, resulting in York University research that confirms protons are smaller than expected. York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton \u2013 a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}