In today’s world, where we deify science, it’s interesting to read this article about the development of a one-atom thick layer of carbon. We read:

The substance, graphene, was created two years ago but could be made only when stuck to another material. Researchers have now managed to manufacture it as a film suspended between the nanoscale bars of scaffolding made from gold.

Such a feat was held to be impossible by theorists, backed up by experimentation, because it is in effect a two-dimensional crystal that is supposed to be destroyed instantly by heat.

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The graphene membrane has proved to be so stable that it holds together in vacuums and at room temperature. All other known materials oxidise, decompose and become unstable at sizes ten times the thickness.

So, the modern god of Science (yes, that’s the proper capitalization of those words) has been shown to be wrong yet again. But don’t let that shake your faith!