If all particles in the universe were massless, then, the universe would look to them to be infinitely small.

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And an infinitely small universe is one that would undergo a Big Bang.

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Indeed, the infinitely small British constitution ranks highest by this standard.

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All this is necessary to produce the infinitely small patterns on the silicon wafers (like the one I am holding in the photo) that end up becoming transistors interconnected into elaborate circuits.

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