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Yes, but not all particles have to have mass. remember that those particles (photons... etc) aren't matter at all but gauge bosons. Gauge bosons occupy a single zero-dimentional point (except for when it's a wave; see particle-wave duality), because they have no mass, and thus don't take up space.

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