Scalar field vs Quantum - They are both really the same.
Here's a letter I recently sent tp Mathematical physicist Dr. Milo Wolff explaining this.
Milo,
I know you don't like moving into Murray Gell-Mann's realm of the quark but here's where the String theorists WILL.
They will say a vibration is a vibration is a vibration.
What can be seen as a Doppler shift in one spacetime realm will be seen as a mere wave in another realm because motion doesn't transfer from realm to realm; only waves do.
The String theorists will see that from another realm the electron - a standing wave entity - can be seen as being built from momentary vector resonances at the de Broglie wavelength.
But these are vector resonances, not scalar resonances.
A quantum of energy is also a momentary vector resonance between a spin up-spin down pair of electrons which at that instant of energy exchange, together become a spin-balanced bosonic pair.
But many of these pair make up many quanta that build into this spherical, scalar light entity we see.
[Light also can - and WILL shortly be seen - as Tony Bermanseder has stated,
". . . as a standing wave characterized by invariance of c relative to any observer in SR, GR or QR (modified M-Theory)."]
String Theorists - now have the math for and - will soon mathematically prove that this vector quantum, many of which are producing scalar quanta light is the same as the de Broglie vector waves, many of which are producing the scalar standing wave of the electron.
They will also then see, as Tony Bermanseder and I have, that TIME and particles are produced by these spherical, standing wave, scalar resonances which you, Milo, have been the first to produce the formula for.
You need to do some serious thinking about all this, Milo and where it will eventually lead to. You really do.
It is terribly important.
Cheers
Daniel P. Fitzpatrick Jr.
The fundamental theory behind String Theory