D’oh! 20 Instances When The Simpsons Accurately Predicted The Future

God Particle

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It is safe to say Homer isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Although, in an 1998 episode titled “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace,” Homer writes out an equation that closely resembles the equation of the “God particle” — which wasn’t discovered until 2012.

“That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson,” Simon Singh, author of the 2013 book “The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets,” told the British newspaper The Independent in 2015. “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.”