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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Physics Research International Volume 2012, Article ID 232864, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/232864 Review Article Softening the “Crystal Scaffold” for Life’s Emergence Gargi Mitra-Delmotte1 and Asoke Nath Mitra2 1 39 Cite de l’Ocean, Montgaillard, 97400 St. Denis, Reunion 2 Department of Physics, Delhi University, 244 Tagore Park, Delhi 110009, India Correspondence should be addressed to Gargi Mitra-Delmotte, gargijj@orange.fr and Asoke Nath Mitra, ganmitra@.in Received 1 August 2011; Accepted 13 November 2011 Academic Editor: Manh-Huong Phan Copyright © 2012 G. Mitra-Delmotte and A. N. Mitra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Del Giudice’s group studies how water can organize on hydrophilic surfaces forming coherent domains (loaning energy from the quantum vacuum), plus quasifree electrons, whose excitations produce cold vortices, aligning to ambient fields. Their electric and magnetic dipolar modes can couple to oscillatory (electric-organic dipoles) and/or rotary (magnetic-mineral dipoles), besides responding to magnetic potentials. Thus, imprinted electromagnetic patterns of catalytic colloids—compared with Cairns-Smith’s “crystal scaffold”—on their structured water partners could have equipped the latter with a selection basis for “choosing” their context-based “soft-matter” (de Gennes) replacements. We consider the potential of the scenario of an external control on magnetic colloids forming in the Hadean hydrothermal setting (of Russell and coworkers)—via a magnetic rock field— conceptually enabling self-a