  The work of our group on reproducing scenarios of high energy theoretical
physics on Dirac materials, like graphene, is illustrated. The main goal of
this paper is to explain how versatile these systems are, and how far and wide
into the hep-th territory we can explore with them. I first review why these
materials lend themselves to the emergence of special relativistic-like matter
and space, with the focus on the emergence of curvature. Then the crucial role
of the low dimensions (2+1), and Weyl symmetry, towards the realization of a
Unruh-kind of phenomenon (along with other interesting scenarios, that include
the BTZ black hole and de Sitter spacetime) is explained. Comments on how far
we went in the direction of experiments are offered too, followed by a list of
some fresh results: From the time-loop to spot torsion, to the generalized
uncertainty principle stemming from and underlying (lattice) length; From a
model of grain-boundaries and their relation to (A)dS and Poincar\'e spacetime
algebras, to Unconventional Supersymmetry and the role of the two Dirac points
of graphene; and more. In the concluding remarks I briefly try to make the case
for the realization of a ``CERN for analogs'', where theorists. both of the
hep-th and of the cond-mat types, sit next to experimentalists, mostly of the
cond-mat type.
