Exotic Hydrogen Experiment Finds Bafflingly Small Proton, Hints
at Physics Beyond the Standard Model  If the experiment is
proven correct it would change physics as we know it  By on
January 24th, 2013 22:42 GMT  With physicists pretty much done
in their search for the elusive Higgs boson and now getting
ready to discover even more exotic particles, if they exist to
be found, you'd think that they'd have something as banal as the
proton all wrapped up by now.  But you'd be wrong, one of the
most interesting developments in recent years has been a debate
on the size of the proton which was believed to have long been
determined.  A new type of experiment provided a wildly
different result, one that could be not be explained by simple
errors.  Unlike electrons, for example, which in practical terms
don't occupy any volume and are essentially a geometric point, a
proton is made up of three quarks, plus gluons flying between
them keeping it all together.  It has a volume and up until
recently, scientists were sati