In theoretical astrophysics, Strings take on Planck length: the smallest possible length value before all mathematics breaks down. Theorists like Leonard Susskind describe what lies there — Calabi-Yau manifolds in fluid states — as a dense landscape of frequencies. Between Strings and the atom lies the quantum field. If we understand the ascent upwards on the Planck scale as moving from the fluid to the structured, the quantum field represents a middle ground between matter as we understand it and pure energy, which perhaps best describes Strings. Here I imagine the quantum field as a lattice or grid: lines of force that overlap and combine in a dense arrangement. Not yet matter in its own right. But more structured than pure energy.