Homer Simpson, the main character of the series "The Simpsons" Higgs mass predicted 14 years before researchers at CERN. At least that's what the author of a new book that analyzes presented in cartoon matimatica known internationally.
In the episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", released in 1998, Homer mentions a mathematical equation that predicts actually Higgs boson mass, called "God particle" which is believed to be part of the mechanism that confers other elementary particles their mass.
How this happens? Homer becomes inventor and create all kinds of devices, such as an electric hammer and a gun for applying makeup. In the process, he discovers he has hidden mathematical skills and thus predict that the God particle mass, scientists now studied at CERN, is 775 GeV.
The author of "The Simpsons Mathematical and Their Secrets", Simon Singh, said that the way of thinking petnru used to achieve this result is not very different from that used by researchers at CERN, who discovered in 2012 that the Higgs boson mass is 125 GeV.
The mathematician who found the formula used in the TV series David X. Cohen was the one who later came to be executive producer of another animation - "Futurama". It seems that Cohen would have contacted one of his friends from high school, David Schiminovich - an astronomer at Columbia University, and together they worked on this equation.
"The equation is a combination of various fundamental parameters, especially the Planck constant, the gravitational constant and the speed of light," says Singh.
Source: Science Alert
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