Homer Simpson almost discovered the Higgs boson before any scientist

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Some may refer to The Simpsons as "genius" but nobody expected this.

A new book titled The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets claims that donut-loving Homer Simpson nearly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson 14 years before any scientist.

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During the episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace," which aired in September 1998, Homer writes an equation on a chalkboard, which turns out to be an equation that nearly predicts the mass of the Higgs boson a.k.a. the "God Particle."

The book's author Simon Singh told The Independent , "that equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson." He added, "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.” Read more...

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