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One thought equivalent to less than a single proton in mass

maccy

Is there a units problem here?

"It was believed that the proton was about 0.877 femtometres, less than a trillionth of a millimetre. But now scientists have found the subatomic particle is 30 billionths of a per cent lighter than that estimate."

I thought I was 1.8m tall but it turns out I'm much heavier.

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