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 the result of air compression from an object accelerating beyond the speed of sound. Electricity doesn’t move through air like a jet plane. It conducts through wires. No air is being compressed. No boom.

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