The discovery of the "God particle" or the Higgs Boson believed to be a crucial particle in explaining the mass of the universe was apparently first discovered by that famous yellow guy, Homer Simpson, of the famous TV series, "The Simpsons".

Homer is a dimwitted, lovable fool who loves donuts and works for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He's clumsy, lazy and stupid but Homer Simpson could have been a genius after this bizarre discovery.

Like Us on Facebook

A book author that wanted to figure out hidden equations and mathematical problems found in episodes of TV series discovered that Homer predicted the mass of the Higgs boson particle exactly 14 years before it was discovered by physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

The author of the book, Simon Singh, who's also a physicist, wrote "The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets" revealed that the complex equation from a 1998 episode links to the Higgs boson particle. The episode, "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace," saw Homer become an inventor and he was standing in front of a blackboard with an equation written on it.

Singh claims this complicated equation predicted the mass of the God particle. He believes the formula Homer came up is the real deal.

According to the episode's script writer, David Cohen, he came up with those equations when he contacted his high school buddy, David Schiminovich, an astronomer from Columbia University. The first equation on Homer's blackboard is largely based on Schiminovich's work that predicted the mass of the Higgs boson particle denoted as H0.

At the time, Cohen and Shiminovich demonstrated with an equation the best possible answer using data available in 1998. According to Singh, the equation on the Simpsons episode actually did make sense since it consisted of a playful combination of various fundamental parameters called the Planck Constant along with the gravitational constant and the speed of light.

The numbers involved in this particular equation predicted a 775 gigaelectron volt (GeV) mass not too far from the 125 GeV estimate when the Higgs boson particle was discovered. Singh also adds that 775 GeV wasn't really a bad guess for Homer, who plays an amateur inventor in the episode.

The calculation is also 14 years before physicists at CERN or the European Organization for Nuclear Research pinned down the elusive particle. The Higgs boson was first envisioned and predicted in 1964.

It wasn't until March 2013 that scientists and physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider found direct evidence of its existence.

TagsHomer Simpson Predicted 'God Particle' 14 Years Earlier Before CERN Physicists, The Simpsons, Homer Simpson, higgs boson particle, God particle, CERN, LHC, CERN LHC, Large Hadron Collider, homer simpson god particle higgs boson 14 years earlier CERN scientists