Graphene Discovered in Space --Could It Revolutionize Our View of Space-Time?

Physicist Peter Horava, at the University of California, Berkeley,  thinks graphere can help us understand what happened immediately after the big bang or what's going on near the event horizon of black holes, where the gravitational fields are massive.
This week, a team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible detection of planar C24 ("a piece of graphene") in space. Letizia Stanghellini and Richard Shaw, members of the team at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, describe how collisional shocks powered by the winds from old stars in planetary nebulae could be responsible for the formation of fullerenes (C60 and C70) and graphene (planar C24).

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"The Selfish Biocosm" --Radical Theory Says Message from ET is Coded into the Laws & Constants of the Universe-
 

A radical theory of evolution proposed by complexity theorist James Gardner, which he terms biocosm, proposes that the universe is not a random collection of inorganic matter and life. That intelligence is not some cosmic accident, and that intelligence and life are preprogrammed into the physical laws of nature.

Gardner believes that we've already received a message from ET: a message coded into the laws and constants of our universe, including the inexplicable force we've named dark energy that's accelerating cosmic expansion. His theory makes sense of the observation that the constants seems rigged in favor of the emergence of life. The constants appear improbably favorable to carbon-based life, an unexplained oddity that many of the world's leading scientists have identified as the deepest mystery in all of science.

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