So, I've spent a great deal of time morphing my thinking from what I thought a few years ago, into what I think today. I guess this is progress. I started out thinking there were more substantial differences between what has been known and recognized for years (electromagnetic signals), and what I knew must certainly exist (quantum signals). Now my thinking has brought the two things closer together, while there are certainly still some differences remaining.
First, I stick by my original premise that nature's mode of energy transit is longitudinal. This is Tesla’s view. This stems directly from the ideas that encapsulate the crystallography of mass medium, and my extension of them into space. However; this longitudinal force may cause propagation within refracted transverse paths, via the waveguides created by crystallographically defined percolation and attendant self assembly of the medium.
So, here I want to make some generalizations about electromagnetic and quantum signals. By my definition, any signal that transits between quantum objects or "particles" is a quantum signal. So, this may take a directly percolative or a transverse path, or both. This is a deviation from my thoughts some two or three years ago. I now see the longitudinal force as being the driver for the build-out of the self assembly. Either a percolative transverse or a directly percolative signal may transit the resulting path(s). My definition puts a quantum signal on the scale of quantum objects, such that the signal typically covers the geometric spaces of objects that are on the nano and sub-nano scales.
At the center of the tessellation of the field (the self assembly), there is a substantial speed gain for quantum signals. But, from those signals there is also a more assured reflexive response from like-geometry objects to which the energy has transited. The velocity of the transit at the center of the field which "connects" quantum sized objects is (in my opinion) sufficient to beat the latency of the lyotropic medium. In other words, the medium remains built and does not dissolve within a specific space of time (its latency). When this happens, the speed of the energy transit is no longer confined to the speed of the self assembly. Instead, it is dependent upon the equivalent of the "modulus of elasticity" for the medium. This velocity is much greater than the tessellation speed, (at least 10,000 times greater). It is this increased velocity which is responsible for the so-called "instantaneous action at a distance."
All of this means that a quantum signal can travel at the speed of light C if the frequency of the originating or "carrier" signal is too low. It can travel at the speed of light C in the forward direction, but at the high velocity of light (>10000X) on the return path. And finally, it can travel at the high velocity of light in both directions on the second and subsequent transits, since for such transits the path remains built.
There is another phenomenon which I intend to investigate in the near future. So far I have been postulating signal paths which are very direct, and considering only the originating signals. It seems that accompanying all of the original signals could be an overall field perturbation that might be called "quantum interference." This field could be cause for some interesting (hologram-like) effects.
One final comment. The percolative forces are related to the magnetic field. This is a position which I feel is boosted by the idea that the dipoles of magnetic materials are aligned in ways that would seem to be directly percolative paths. The dipoles of magnetic materials are the essence of crystallography. The "electrical field" derives from the percolative magnetic one. So, there is really only one force, IMO.
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.