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

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Big has gotten harder: Fusion power is infinitely more complicated than internal combustion, and a laptop computer inhabits a different universe from an adding machine.

FORBES: Why Can't We Do Big Things Anymore?

Big and bold, more than twice the size of Texas and infinitely wilder and more remote, Alaska has been a draw for generations of footloose romantics, dreamers and adventurers.

BBC: Journey into the Alaskan wild

New technologies promise not just big improvements in local efficiency, but also the further and potentially bigger gains that flow from an infinitely denser network of connections, electronic and otherwise, with the developed world.

ECONOMIST: The case for globalisation