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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Answer 1

Electrons have virtually no mass. So little that they’re generally considered mass-less. No mass, no effect on physical material such as air no sonic boom. It’s the same reason light doesn’t cause sonic booms as it goes through the atmosphere.