article_snippet: Homer is better known as the hapless, doughnut-obsessed safety officer at Springfield nuclear power plant, but it appears that Homer Simpson may have outwitted some of the brightest minds on the planet.
article_snippet: Dr Simon Singh, a physicist and author, found the solution written on a blackboard in front of Homer during a 1998 episode of the long running cartoon.
article_snippet: In 'The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace', Homer becomes an inventor in an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Thomas Edison.
article_snippet: It's kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered.'
article_snippet: However, it appears that the writers of the Simpsons had already successfully predicted the outcome 14 years earlier.
article_snippet: Dr Singh claims the formula written by Homer while Homer is attempting to come up with a series of madcap inventions, including an electric hammer and make-up gun, gives close to the same answer.
article_snippet: Homer contacted one of Homer high school friends, David Schiminovich, who is an astronomer at Columbia University.
article_snippet: Perhaps typically Homer also appears to have been thinking with Homer stomach with a formula that suggests eating half a doughnut makes a whole.
highlights_snippet: In The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Homer Simpson becomes an inventor .
  