If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?

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If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?

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A sonic boom is when air is pushed out of the way of something moving faster than sound. If the electricity is not moving in air, no boom.

If the electricity is moving though the air it does make a boom. We call it *Thunder*. Technically, the electricity isn’t moving faster than sound there either, but this is ELI5

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