i think this is a real nerd sniper so i am some what surprised that i was unable to find this yet on HN

Bilayer graphene inspires two-universe cosmological model

https://jqi.umd.edu/news/bilayer-graphene-inspires-two-unive...

The peer reviewed paper (open access version) behind this (with a less racy title) is at

Strained bilayer graphene, emergent energy scales, and moiré gravity

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev...