  We provide semi-rigorous arguments that the Homogeneous Electron Fluid (HEF)
has a colloidal phase separating the Wigner Crystal from the high density fluid
phase. Near the crossover between crystal and fluid ground state energies, the
argument is quite general and valid for practically any quantum transition
between a crystal and a more amorphous phase. In this regime, the colloid is a
gel and its "Goldstone" modes are flows of irregular fluid droplets separated
by crystalline walls. A metal insulator transition occurs when a single bubble
of fluid spans the entire system. Beyond this transition the colloid is a sol
and its properties depend on the existence of meta-stable finite crystallites
with negative surface tension. If these exist, the sol phase has lower energy
than the homogeneous fluid. In the two dimensional HEF, Kivelson and Spivak
argued that such negative surface tension objects always exist, at least in the
form of stripes. We argue that the existence of stripes also implies the
existence of finite negative tension elliptical crystallites and the detailed
competition between the finite crystallite phase and striped phases is
difficult to calculate. We also provide weaker arguments that finite
crystallites exist in three dimensions. This provides evidence for our claim
that the gapless excitations at non-zero wavenumber, observed in the numerical
calculations of\cite{haule}\cite{gapless} are quantum remnants of these
crystallites (Bosonic quasi-particles) in the limit of vanishing surface
tension. Finally, we suggest a Landau mean field theory for the second order
quantum phase transition between the fluid and sol phases.
