A series of experiments on proton‐proton inelastic scattering were performed at NAL and ISR. The four‐momentum transfer in these experiments ranges from .01 to 1.75 (GeV/c)2and the equivalent laboratory momentum ranges from 50 to 2,000 (GeV/c). The results clearly show the existence of two components. For one of these the cross section d2&sgr;/dtdMx2scales as 1/s. For small Mx2a second component is present. Its cross section is independent of energy and is bounded by3.2 < &sgr;diff < 4.7 mb.