The episode "Simpsons" "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (20.09.1998) finds Homer (At the moment Genen and Castellaneta) become desperate for lack of great achievements in his life. Seeking meaning for his existence in the library, Homer stumbles on Thomas Edison's biography and he is inspired. Homer gives up his job to become an inventor, using the volume of Edison's inventions to assess his own success.

Homer's inventions are perhaps predictable, horrible. He invents a rifle, for example, that can explode makeup directly on a person's face. It invents a lightweight toilet installed chair, designed for people too lazy to rise during their favorite TV shows. Homer understands his inventions very seriously, but he cannot invent anything practical.

During one of his invention edits, Homer wrote advanced cardboard calculations, shocking activity for someone as stupid as Homer and useless endeavors, seeing how toilets and rifles. The equations were, because math nerves could be told, truly advanced equations, drawn from real -life professors who contacted Series Writer (both diplomas and computer science and physics) David H. Cohen. The Simpsons, thanks to Cohen, received a lot of his own mathematical law, and Cohen wore his mathematical and engineering obsessions in Futurama, which he and the Simpsons invented inventor Matt Groneng.

As it happens, one of the random equations on Homer's map was a calculation that, when worked out, gave the mass of Boson Higgs, or the "particle of the god", which allowed the stars, planets and life to appear. According to the book of D -Simon Singh "Simpsons and their mathematical secrets", "" The mass showdown was surprisingly accurate for the cartoon show. The stunning thing, however, was that Homer wrote that equation in 1998, and Boson Higgs was not first noticed until the experiment was conducted in 2012.

For those who do not know what Higgs Boson is, here's a (very short) primer, explained by someone who is definitely a layman (that's yours really). The Higgs field is essentially a force in the physics of particles that prevents massive particles (ie because poetry metaphors help describe advanced physics, the HIGS field is like a "syrup" that forces particles to slow down and respect the speed limit (that is: The phenomenon On the Hubpages website. The Higgs field slows down all mass particles. Particles that do not have a mass, meanwhile, can become as quickly as possible, free and smooth.

Boson is a fast -moving particle through other grouped particles that are "slowed" by the Higgs field. It is a particle that assigns a mass to other particles, and its existence is confirmed by the standard model of particle physics. It was so fundamental to the model, sometimes having a particle of the particle of the god. If you want to know more, you may have to contact a true particle physicist.

Laik can However, to tell you that Bosson was theoretized by Peter Higgs in 1964, as a potential explanation of why certain particles receive mass. The particle remained theoretical, however, because there was no way to bother. Wouldn't be until 2012, and A series of experiments with the Great Hardon Colider in CERN in SwitzerlandThat physicists will be able to create and record the mass of Bosson for the first time. The theory of Higgs, it turns out, was correct.

But Homer Simpson beat these eggheads on CERN to Punch.

The fact that Homer's chalk equations were a bit accurate was probably the result of real theories trading physicists and mathematicians in 1998. The mystery of Boson Higgs was well known on the ground, and it is likely that David H. Cohen contacted people (unfortunately, their names were not discovered) that were not detected) working on the problem. Dr. Singh, in his book, expressed surprise thus:

"That equation predicts the mass of Boson Higgs.

For the record, the mass of boson Higgs is 125.11 ± 0.11 gev/c². You know, in case you appear on "Jeopardy!"

Since so many physicists and mathematicians wrote about the "Simpsons" (and later, "Futurama"), many articles have been written about the Loveube of Sciences. Dr -Sing has not only wrote the whole book on the topic, but can be found There is no drawback to essays over the internet and other Tommy The area of ​​that waste. The Simpsons and Futurama can be the smartest "stupid" thereSince they surround the average average characters, they often enter the world clearly constructed by highly educated people. If you have no knowledge of physics, you will laugh. If you have a lot of knowledge of physics, you will roar.