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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Electrons have very little mass, when you have a big power surge, such as lightning striking, it does create a boom and you get thunder. It’s just not that same boom created by an object with mass moving very fast.

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