If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?
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um, not a physicist, but the top answer seems a misconception. Electricity is part of the electro-magentic spectrum, so never mind the speed of sound – it travels at the speed of light.
So it doesn’t make a sonic boom for the same reason photons don’t make sonic booms. Also, veritasium did a video that breaks down *how* exactly electricity travels “down” a wire (it doesn’t – it’s complicated).
[Here’s the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY)
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