THE ADVENTURES OF NANO-GUY AND PLASMON-GIRL (PART 2)

The Blue Shift

Nano Guy keeps avoiding contact with Plasmon Girl for some unknown reason. He silently slips away at the end of the day.  Several days later, PG finally manages to get his attention.

 PG: You appear distant. Your smile seems blue shifted to me. Is everything alright?

NG: (Trying to avoid the obvious) Hey!! I’m fine. No worries!

PG: Doesn’t seem that way though. I can see right through you, you know!! Tell me, what's up?

NG: (trying to mask his emotions with humour) Well, since you’re asking. It’s just that I ain’t feeling too good. I feel like I am a defective piece.

 PG: (displaying indifference) So?! There’s nothing new in that.

NG: (slightly taken aback) Huh!?

PG: Oh, come on now! We all are defective.

NG scratches his head, still wondering where she was headed with this.

PG: (continues with a wide grin) Everybody is defective coz nobody’s perfect!! You know that!

NG: (a tiny hint of a smile emerged on the corner of his lips) That’s not what I meant though.

PG: (In an attempt to widen it into a broad smile) OMG!! What’s that line across your face?!  Is that a smile??

NG quickly suppressed the smile on this face as soon as he realised he was still smiling.

PG was saddened by her failure for a minute before she got the ultimate idea; the one that always worked in situations like these.

PG :(Gloat Mode ON) Hey!! Do you know why I glow so much when people compliment me?

PG was eagerly waiting for NG to ask why. He finally obliged.

NG: (Rolling his eyes and sighing heavily, while thinking ‘Why me??!!’) Why??

PG: (in amusement) It’s coz I’m metallic on the outside and all soft glass on the inside. I let the compliment enter and as it undergoes multiple reflections beyond critical angle, within me,  I begin to emanate evanescent waves that give off a soft glow.

There is a momentary silence which engulfs the room as NG deciphers the very complex physics that was hurled at him. He the stares at her, flabbergasted, as the meaning dawned upon him.

He bursts into a boisterous laugh.

NG: Oh my God, Plasmon girl!!! Where the hell did THAT come from??!!

PG : (satisfied) Yeah!! That’s right. Mission Accomplished.