Are quarks inside nucleus naturally entangled?

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Are quarks that made up a proton or neutron naturally entangled at all times? If not. When do they lose entanglement or reestablish entanglement?

If they are always entangled. How about between two protons/neutrons or more. Are they all entangled?
 
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Entangled, I guess, is one of the latest buzzwords. Emergent is the other. The quarks within a hadron are not individually observable, and as a result they share a coherent wavefunction. As for two or more hadrons, if the hadrons themselves are coherent, then so are the quarks. This would apply to the protons and neutrons in a nucleus. It would not apply to the debris resulting from a high-energy collision where you can track the individual pieces.
 
Bill_K said:
Entangled, I guess, is one of the latest buzzwords. Emergent is the other. The quarks within a hadron are not individually observable, and as a result they share a coherent wavefunction. As for two or more hadrons, if the hadrons themselves are coherent, then so are the quarks. This would apply to the protons and neutrons in a nucleus. It would not apply to the debris resulting from a high-energy collision where you can track the individual pieces.

Are you the same Bill who is anti Bell's Theorem/Aspect experiments who loved to debate with DrChinese? I need to know so I can gauge the reliability of what you are saying above. Hope others can confirm it.
 
I'm not the person you describe, Varon, I don't enter lengthy debates with anyone. I encourage you to think about what I said and not worry about who you think said them. Posting an answer your question is something I did voluntarily.
 
Bill_K said:
Entangled, I guess, is one of the latest buzzwords. Emergent is the other. The quarks within a hadron are not individually observable, and as a result they share a coherent wavefunction. As for two or more hadrons, if the hadrons themselves are coherent, then so are the quarks. This would apply to the protons and neutrons in a nucleus. It would not apply to the debris resulting from a high-energy collision where you can track the individual pieces.

So this proves that during superposition when particles don't have properties like positions, mass exists as the kinetic energy of the quarks contribute to the weight of a person body in addition to Higgs coupling. Say if I'm 150 lbs. Does any knows how many lbs does the kinetic energy of the quarks contribute to my body weight?

Bohr said that in the absense of measurement to determine its position, the particle has no position. But it definitely has mass. I just can't imagine how something can have no position but has mass. Any tips how to imagine it?