Homer Simpson almost discovered the Higgs boson before any scientist — mashable.com

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. 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."

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