There is a lot of empty space inside a proton. A proton is 10^-15 m and a quark is 10^-18 m, so that's 3 orders of magnitude which is equivalent to 1 m versus 1,000 meters. And there is certainly even more empty space inside a quark but we don't know for sure yet if ever. So two protons do not occupy the same space due to the Pauli Exclusion Principle, therefore 3 quarks, say 1 meter long, do not occupy the same space as three other quarks a 1000 meters away because of some mysterious property they have. They are acting at a distance. They know that they are not supposed to occupy the same space that three other quarks occupy and they are doing this at a distance. Is this picture correct?