So, there has been a progression in my thinking, as it pertains to the self assembling lyotropic medium, the refractive boundaries it creates, the irreptile nature of its crystallography, the speed of the tessellating (slow = C) light energy through the medium, and the speed of the energy on a built-path (first response and all subsequent, until decay).
What makes the wide-path/normal light speed so slow (velocity C) - is the fact that it is building out the self assembly of its tessellation as it goes. So, on any quantum circuit, the first forward stroke will be only at the slow speed of light C, and the following reflexive actions on the circuit will be at the fast speed of light (so far, best estimates are 10,000 * C). But, the reflexive responses occur only within the innermost regions of tessellation, because of the latency of the lyotropic medium (aether). These responses come only from those objects with geometries commensurate with the geometry of the inner tessellation, which means small things: atoms, molecules, photons … in other words, quantum objects.
I have been calling the innermost signals "tiny waves" - but is that really the best description? Since the period / wavelength of a wave is measured against time, when the wave transit time is almost nil, the wave is delivered in pieces. In such a case, the endpoints still seem to have the characteristics of a wave: it's just that it is delivered almost instantaneously. The pieces are seen as pulses, when compared to the time base of the slow wave. Relative to the endpoints of the connection, the wave is delivered a tiny piece at a time, making it seem like there is instantaneous synchronization.
This piecemeal delivery of the quantum state was of course undetectable to the likes of Einstein, Bohr and the various people who performed the experiments involving quantum entanglement. Quantum signals could be visualized as a series of "bullets" - almost - when viewed on the timescale of the slow-as-molasses speed (C) of ordinary transverse waves using the on-the-fly tessellation build-out of the wave-guide (energy driven linear self-assembly).
Between the endpoints, the wave seems very longitudinal, if looked at while holding a time reference of slow light C. This longitudinality keeps the conservation of energy laws happy. All energy is transferred via the longitudinal force that nature provides, but that force is at the geometry of quantum elements. The waveguide effect provides a transverse wave made of longitudinal percolation. The effect on each endpoint is to reproduce the original wave, with quantum sizing, but opposite phase. The endpoints are 180 degrees out of phase, and to some extent mimic the Wilberforce pendulum in action, but with a twist.
Note: the author is a writer on technical subjects in some areas, of novels, and of other literature, but does not have any formal credentials related to the medical field, or in physics. Thus, this all constitutes an opinion of what might be possible, based on his own hobby-level knowledge quests.
Energy drives assembly in the intra-molecular world of mass. For certain quantum materials, it is energy driven linear self assembly. The energy flows via this self assembly, and the mass follows form. It's all a together sort of thing.
This "first half cycle" tessellation build-out, and the attendant speed difference (forward stroke at speed C, subsequent transits at nearly instantaneous speed), should be an experiment to be done to verify this theory.