Maybe donuts are brain food... That could explain how Homer Simpson figured out an equation that predicts the mass of the Higgs boson - in 1998!
"That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson," Simon Singh, author of the book "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets," told The Independent. "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."
"The Simpsons has many mathematicians on its writing team, including Al Jean, who worked on the very first series and who pretty much runs the show today," Singh said, according to The Daily Mail. "He was such a brilliant young mathematician that he went to Harvard University when he was only sixteen years old."
"If a nerdy teenager spots the maths in 'The Simpsons,' I hope that he or she will think that maths is rightly cool," said Singh, according to The Daily Mail. "'The Simpsons' is cool, the writers of 'The Simpsons' are cool, and if they like maths then maths must be cool. I think the show gives a big endorsement of nerd culture."
