Softening the “Crystal Scaffold” for Life’s Emergence
Joint Authors
Mitra-Delmotte, Gargi
Mitra, Asoke Nath
Source
Physics Research International
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-02-21
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
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-assembly, induction of asymmetries, response effects towards close-to-equilibrium dynamics, and associative networks, besides providing a coherent environment for stabilizing associated symmetry-broken quanta and their feedback interactions with those of coherent water domains, to address the emergence of metabolism and replication.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mitra-Delmotte, Gargi& Mitra, Asoke Nath. 2012. Softening the “Crystal Scaffold” for Life’s Emergence. Physics Research International،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-455935
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mitra-Delmotte, Gargi& Mitra, Asoke Nath. Softening the “Crystal Scaffold” for Life’s Emergence. Physics Research International No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-455935
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mitra-Delmotte, Gargi& Mitra, Asoke Nath. Softening the “Crystal Scaffold” for Life’s Emergence. Physics Research International. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-455935
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-455935