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Matt Cohen contacted one of his high school friends, David Schiminovich, who is an astronomer at Columbia University.

The first equation on the blackboard was largely based on his work predicting the mass of the Higgs boson - denoted by H0. The pair cooked up the equation to give the best answer on the data available at the time.

Dr Singh said: 'The equation is a playful combination of various fundamental parameters, namely the Planck constant, the gravitational constant, and the speed of light.

'If you look up these numbers and plug them into the equation, it predicts a mass of 775 giga-electron-volts (GeV), which is not unreasonably higher than the 125 GeV estimate that emerged when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.

'Indeed, 775 GeV was not a bad guess bearing in mind that Homer is an amateur inventor and he performed this calculation fourteen years before the physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tracked down the elusive particle.'

It is not the only piece of science hidden within the long running cartoon series.

The second line on the blackboard contains an equation that some have claimed is the solution to Fermat's last theorem - although in truth the calculation falls just short.

Perhaps typically Homer also appears to have been thinking with his stomach with a formula that suggests eating half a doughnut makes a whole. Or is it just a hole?

Elsewhere in the series there are numerous jokes about perfect numbers and mersenne primes and the first ever full episode had a joke about calculus.

Dr Singh, who has written a book called The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, claims that the Simpsons is the most mathematical TV shows on prime time television.

This may be because many of the writers of the show were mathematicians themselves.

Mr Cohen, who wrote scripts for the Simpsons for five years, was a gifted mathematician from a young age and studied physics at Harvard University.

He is known to often smuggle mathematics into the TV series.

Dr Singh said he hoped the maths in the cartoon might even help persuade more people to take an interest in the subject.

He said: 'The Simpsons has many mathematicians on its writing team, including Al Jean, who worked on the very first series and who pretty much runs the show today.

'He was such a brilliant young mathematician that he went to Harvard University when he was only sixteen years old.

'If a nerdy teenager spots the maths in The Simpsons, I hope that he or she will think that maths is rightly cool.

'The Simpsons is cool, the writers of The Simpsons are cool, and if they like maths then maths must be cool. I think the show gives a big endorsement of nerd culture.'

Alternately, Occam's Razor: True scientific knowledge is ahead of the general public's understanding of it by several decades, and world events are planned in a similar timeframe. As knowledge trickles down and preordained events occur, some creators of "predictive programming" are seen as precocious. In reality, they are privvy to information that you are not. Others just get lucky.

It's the other way around, which is pretty boring. Take random jargon from a cartoon and turn it into "le science" and proclaim it as something le supreme.
Don't worry, if anything is out of equation and incorrect, then we blame it on black matter, which is 99% of the universe.

The entire lens that you are looking through is the problem.

I hear so often about the Simpson's "predictions." The Simpsons are bargain basic satire. There's no predictions here, it's that they take the scale of satire to an obvious overblown extent and work backwards. Reality functions in the same way, with people doing things so out of character that it almost becomes satire. The same humor that inspires the Simpsons to be funny is grounded in real life humor in individual perspectives.

If there was not multiple people that found these things funny, there would be no predictions. There's TONS of things that have happened in the Simpsons that are not even close to being based in reality. Remember when Sideshow Bob killed Bart, and then kept his body and drank his blood? He then revived Bart from death after realizing that his life has no greater mission and then proceeded to kill Bart over and over again until he was tired, which didn't stop until Lisa found out where Bart was. Anything like this happened often in reality? It wasn't considered funny by many, so you won't hear about it.

Personally I'm convinced that the "Mandela effect(s)" is (are) from something in the past being changed. When it comes to the original, I had no idea who Nelson Mandela was until I saw on CNN that he had died in prison and asked my parents who he was and why he was important. (I was told he was basically an anti-white activist and otherwise wasn't)

Also, what sense does the name Beren"stain" Bears make? It was obviously supposed to be derived from the german-jewish "stein" Einstein, Weinstein, Epstein, Bearenstein.

On the same point, as a child, I learned what a cornucopia was from the fruit of the loom logo. So the idea that there isn't one there is just downright weird.

But the past being changed would have strange ripple effects and I think that's exactly what's going on.

Except it doesnt show that time travel or seeing into the future is real or possible.

I've had some really explosive diarrhea that I liken to sharticle acceleration.