if two electromagnetic fields directed at each other create a scalar field, was the scalar field there all along running as the default?

Question

It seems like scalar fields might explain the spiral flow of water through a pipe or the way blood flows in the body. See link below. Could scalar fields be the default underlying fields in the entire universe? Why or why not?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Yes. There are scalar constantly throughout all of space

For scalar fields, you have gravitational potential, the electric charge density, and a few quantum mechanical fields describing each point in space. This can be zero, but these forces have infinite range so any mass or charge would change the field of the entire universe.

You also have vector fields, where instead of a number for each point in space, you have a vector pointing somewhere with a magnitude. This could be the magnetic flux or gravitational force.

[If you find the gradient of a scalar field, you get a vector field, so this is how the gravitational potential is a scalar field, but gravitational force is a vector field]