Our Physics teacher was more of an older friend for us than a teacher. He took all the boredom away from an arduous science subject by making it incredibly appealing to our curious minds. He knew extremely well how to communicate complex scientific concepts to us through riveting demonstrations and fascinating experiments (that didn't always work, mind you). The classroom was our playground when it was time to 'study' Physics. The captivating visual appeal of what I was told was Physics, worked wonders to teach me seemingly intricate ideas about the macrocosm and microcosm that have stuck with me to this day. And this is how I learned that light travels faster than sound. Why I still ended up becoming a banker and not a physicist, is a story for some other time. School Physics taught me in more ways than one, that light travels faster than sound. Light is human beings' beloved child while sound is the unruly step-child that our brains love to hate. Compared to