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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It’s not pushing air out of the way to make it move. It’s just electrons pushing each other down the wire.

Even when lightning strikes, the thunder isn’t a sonic boom, it’s a pressure wave from the sudden heating of the air the charges moved through.

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