Washington, DC [US], April 10 (ANI): Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize winner behind the ‘God’ particle, passed away at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the age of 94, The Washington Post reported. His reflections on the origins of mass sparked a nearly five-decade, multibillion dollar search for a subatomic particle, later known as the ‘Higgs boson’, which was thought to hold the key to understanding the nature of the universe. In a statement, the University of Edinburgh announced his passing on April 8 but did not cite a cause. His hypothesis required the presence of a part…