Years before scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider proved the existence of the (until then-theoretical) Higgs boson in 2013, it was none other than Homer Simpson who came astonishingly close to predicting the mass of the so-called “god particle” back in 1998. That year, in the second episode of the show’s tenth season, Homer becomes an inventor after becoming inspired by Thomas Edison’s life story. At one point in the episode, the Simpson’s patriarch can be seen at a chalkboard, working on what at first glance appears to be some sort of donut-based equation.
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Heh, I knew Futurama had crazy, fun, and brilliant tidbits like that thrown in there, but never looked for them in The Simpsons. especially from Homer.
I wish I was smarter to understand the equation myself to see really how 'close' it is.
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Heh, I knew Futurama had crazy, fun, and brilliant tidbits like that thrown in there, but never looked for them in The Simpsons. especially from Homer.
I wish I was smarter to understand the equation myself to see really how 'close' it is.
Hawking - "I call it a Hawking hole"
Fry - "No fair, I saw it first"
Hawking - "Who is the journalist of physics going to believe?"
I had a couple of funny quotes and observations, that I'm going to self edit, but I'll leave you with a story that is in papers across the country today, so that you can make up your own in your head. I repeat, in your head.
Simpsons Discovered The Elusive ‘God Particle’ Fourteen Years Before Science.
