If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?
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**Why would it?**
The way to look at this question is first what causes a sonic boom. First like of the wikipedia page is “A [sonic boom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom) is a sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound.”
Electricity isn’t an object and it’s not traveling through the air, so it’s not causing shockwaves.
Light travels way faster than the speed of sound, but not as “an object”. Photons pass through the air.
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