  Recent experimental data on elastic scattering of high energy protons show
that the critical regime has been reached at LHC energies. The approach to
criticality is demonstrated by increase of the ratio of elastic to total cross
sections from ISR to LHC energies. At LHC it reaches the value which can result
in principal change of the character of proton interactions. The treatment of
new physics of hollowed toroid-like hadrons requires usage of another branch of
the unitarity condition. Its further fate is speculated and interpreted with
the help of the unitarity condition in combination with present experimental
data. The gedanken experiments to distinguish between different possibilities
are proposed.
