If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?
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First lets aks what is electricity?
In schoole you learn it’s the movement if electrons. Thats kind of correct but as somebody else already said they are pretty slow.
But electricity is as fast as light?
Yes, the electro-magnetic waves are as fast as light. They do not need a medium to travel through space so they don’t interact with air. Hence no sonicboom.
Veritasium has a video explaining the Electro-Magnetic wave part a bit more.
Bit thunder exist?
Yes, and it’s a sonicboom. Lightning happens when the charge difference between the earth and the clouds (or other clouds) becomes so big that the molecules in the air become ionized (charged). Then electricity can flow which heats the air, which expands and creates a pressure area you here as thunder.
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