The Proton Is Two Different Sizes

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Physicists measured the proton twice.

[00:00:02]Two completely different answers. For a decade, nobody knew why. The first method bounced electrons off protons.

[00:00:09]The second used exotic muons instead.

[00:00:12]Same particle, same universe. Results off by 4%. That's not a rounding error.

[00:00:18]That's a crisis.

[00:00:20]Either our best equations are broken or something stranger is happening inside the proton itself.

[00:00:26]The kind of strange that rewrites textbooks. So,