Homer Simpson May Have Predicted the Mass of the Higgs Boson 14 Years Before Physicists at CERN

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We all know the Simpsons writers are quite the scientific, mathematical, and literary bunch. In addition to an endless amount of trivial pop cultural references, there are a ton of very intelligent ones as well. Out of every in the latter category, we might have found the winner: Homer may have predicted the mass of the long sought-after Higgs boson particle way back in 1998 – a full 14 years before scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

According to physicist Dr. Simon Singh, who is currently writing a book about math hidden in The Simpsons, the family patriarch wrote the solution on a chalkboard in the season 10 episode “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace.”

Of course we have to take his word for it, as the average person has no idea what the correct solution looks like, and most don’t even know what the Higgs boson is. For all we know, Dr. Singh could have told us that Homer invented a car that runs on water (the Homer 2, maybe?) and we’d all be filling up giant jugs and planning our next road trip to the site of the 1982 World’s Fair.

[via Daily Mail UK]

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