Abstract
IT is not unusual to hear statements that a characteristic feature of physical phenomena, as opposed to the phenomena of life, is that the form does not play any part at all in the former, and that therefore “of all problems of physiology, that of form is the least approachable” (O. Warburg, J. Cancer Research, 1, 143; 1925: quoted from V. Cofman, Chem. Rev., December 1928). Without intending at all to participate in any way in the much-debated question as to the ultimate reducibility of life phenomena to those of physics and chemistry, may I point here to certain purely physical cases which, if even not yet entirely realised experimentally, are at least conceivable, and in which the form plays a very essential part.
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