Entanglement Decay of a proton pair

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The discussion centers on the entanglement of a pair of protons and the implications of proton decay on this entanglement. It is established that if one proton decays, the entanglement does not cease to exist; instead, it transforms into a new entanglement with the decay products. The notion that entanglement itself decays over time is definitively rejected. The conversation also touches on the complexities surrounding neutron decay and measurement discrepancies.

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Hi,

Suppose I had a pair of protons that are entangled, and one or both of those protons decayed( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay ) over time, does that mean the entanglement between the protons does not exist anymore, and would it be fair to say that the entanglement decayed over time?
 
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First catch your entangled protons.
Hang them until ripe...
;-)
Slightly off-topic: Long, long ago, my 'Nuclear & Radio-Chemistry' lecturer admitted getting drunk to silence his nagging concerns about how/why neutrons decayed with ~14 min half-life, but protons didn't seem to decay at all...

IIRC, there are still some difficulties. Not least, why measuring free-neutron half-lives two ways gives results that differ by significantly more than those careful methods' error bars...
 
sqljunkey said:
does that mean the entanglement between the protons does not exist anymore

No, it means the entanglement between proton A and proton B, if proton B decays, turns into entanglement between proton A and whatever proton B decayed into.

sqljunkey said:
would it be fair to say that the entanglement decayed over time?

No.
 

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