Mass of the Higgs boson particle? D'oh!

Homer Simpson predicted the mass of the Higgs boson in a 1998 episode of The Simpsons, according to a science writer.

In The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace episode, Homer is shown in front of a blackboard working on an equation.

Fourteen years later, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson.

Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, said "The Simpsons is the most mathematical TV show on prime-time television."

"That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson. 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."