  Del Giudice's group study how water can organize on hydrophilic surfaces
forming coherent domains (loaning energy from the quantum vacuum), plus
quasi-free 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 - c.f. 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, 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.
