Do we have the technology to play minigolf using subatomic particles?

If the particles become waves when no one is looking that is ok a little cheating and magic is in the spirit of minigolf handwaving.

I am NOT talking about making a putter and golfball and snapping a cute shot I am dead serious I want to play the tiniest golf possible.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Ok I am am sort of big picture more interested in what philosophically is the miniest minigolf you can make with it still being golf with a “ball”, a “club” and some minimal course that must be navigated to a “hole”.

    I am fascinated by your question as well though. I would imagine it might come down to manufacturing a ball from a non-crystal lattice like glass to get it as small as possible while still being a ball?

    • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I feel like you could do this with some kind of stereolithography process like in semiconductor processing… You could very easily create the green, hole, and putter at astronomically tiny scales as microscopic thin slabs of silicon, but the roundness of the ball, I don’t know enough about the specific processes to know how you might go about that. I’m sure it’d be possible with enough smart people thinking about it, though.

      Actually interacting with this game, though? Are you imagining like Atomic force microscopy, a tiny tiny little putter attached to a much larger macroscopic assembly able to be manually manipulated?