[ajkjk]

Not really.

A field's normal vibration is like plucking a guitar string. A quantum is like shaking the end of a rope and seeing a ripple fly down it.

[jameshart]

A more developed version of this metaphor showed up on Youtube this very week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhSqq1jysg

[ajkjk]

(well, the guitar string part isn't very apt. It's more like: two objects are flying connected by a stretchy rope)