Homer Simpson Figured Out The Higgs Boson Years Before Physicists March 9, 2015 7:30pm by Barry Ritholtz Source: Huffington Post Spread the wealth. twitter facebook linkedin What's been said: Discussions found on the web: formerlawyer commented on Mar 9 The Simpsons co-creator has died at age 59. http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/sam-simon-simpsons-co-creator-dies-after-cancer-battle-n320141 anewc2 commented on Mar 10 In the first equation, 1/137 is Arthur Eddington’s now-discredited value for the fine structure constant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington#Fundamental_theory_and_the_Eddington_number) Homer-as-physicist is just the guy to follow Eddington on this rather than modern theory. Especially if he raises it to the 8th power. The second equation is accurate to 10 places, good enough for Homer maybe, but not exact. >>> 3987**12 + 4365**12 63976656349698612616236230953154487896987106 >>> 4472**12 63976656348486725806862358322168575784124416 (** means exponentiation in Python) Read this next.December 26, 2014 Generational DivideFebruary 20, 2009 Favoring Nationalization Are . . .January 17, 2017 “Helicopter money” – reality bites Posted Under Humor Science Previous Post Late to the Party Again: Apple Gets Added to the Dow Next Post How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape
formerlawyer commented on Mar 9 The Simpsons co-creator has died at age 59. http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/sam-simon-simpsons-co-creator-dies-after-cancer-battle-n320141
anewc2 commented on Mar 10 In the first equation, 1/137 is Arthur Eddington’s now-discredited value for the fine structure constant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington#Fundamental_theory_and_the_Eddington_number) Homer-as-physicist is just the guy to follow Eddington on this rather than modern theory. Especially if he raises it to the 8th power. The second equation is accurate to 10 places, good enough for Homer maybe, but not exact. >>> 3987**12 + 4365**12 63976656349698612616236230953154487896987106 >>> 4472**12 63976656348486725806862358322168575784124416 (** means exponentiation in Python)
The Simpsons co-creator has died at age 59.
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/sam-simon-simpsons-co-creator-dies-after-cancer-battle-n320141
In the first equation, 1/137 is Arthur Eddington’s now-discredited value for the fine structure constant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington#Fundamental_theory_and_the_Eddington_number) Homer-as-physicist is just the guy to follow Eddington on this rather than modern theory. Especially if he raises it to the 8th power.
The second equation is accurate to 10 places, good enough for Homer maybe, but not exact.
>>> 3987**12 + 4365**12
63976656349698612616236230953154487896987106
>>> 4472**12
63976656348486725806862358322168575784124416
(** means exponentiation in Python)