We all know that Homer acts the fool, but every so often his true genius shines through. In the case of the 1998 Simpsons episode, “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace” Homer stands at a chalkboard working on a complex equation that prefigures the discovery of the Higgs Boson.
“That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson” Simon Singh, author of the 2013 book The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, told The Independent. “If you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that’s only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. It’s kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered.”
The equation was sneaked in by one of the shows writers who had a friend working on research pertaining to the Higgs particle. So, 14 years before scientists discovered the Higgs Boson, Homer Simpson was already cracking the case, and people around the world got a glimpse at real scientific breakthrough without even knowing it.
Via: (HuffPost Science)
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