Years before the particle accelerator, Homer Simpson scribbled on a blackboard an equation that predicted with astonishing accuracy the mass of the "divine particle" • Behind the scientific prediction in the classic episode from 1998 was a guild of screenwriters with degrees in mathematics and physics at Harvard - who planted in a single frame real formulas of string theory and provided one of the most impressive theoretical hits in popular culture • How a cartoon episode predicted the equation - 14 A year before CERN?