article_snippet: The Simpsons has discovered that Homer may have predicted the mass of the Higgs boson the Higgs boson 14 years before physicists discovered the particle at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern.
article_snippet: The formula written on Homer's blackboard above is said to correctly predict the mass of the Higgs boson the Higgs boson .
article_snippet: Speaking to the Independent, Dr Singh said: 'That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs bosonthe Higgs boson.
article_snippet: My PhD is in particle physics, so I was similarly shocked by Homer's equation predicting the mass of the Higgs boson.'
article_snippet: The first equation on the blackboard was largely based on Homer work predicting the mass of the Higgs boson - denoted by H0.
article_snippet: If you look up these numbers and plug these numbers into the equation, it predicts a mass of 775 giga-electron-volts (GeV), which is not unreasonably higher than the 125 GeV estimate that emerged when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. '
article_snippet: Indeed, 775 GeV was not a bad guess bearing in mind that Homer is an amateur inventor and Homer performed this calculation fourteen years before the physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tracked down the elusive particle.'
highlights_snippet: Dr Simon Singh found a formula for the mass of the Higgs boson written on a blackboard during an episode of The Simpsons .
  
highlights_snippet: Dr Simon Singh says it is amazing that Homer appears to have predicted the mass of the Higgs boson long before the Large Hadron Collider gave us proof the Higgs boson existed .
  