There's nothing deficient about transmission lines or lumped element models for answering the riddle. Distributed element models of transmission lines [1] clear

There's nothing deficient about transmission lines or lumped element models for answering the riddle. Distributed element models of transmission lines [1] clearly show a straight line path directly from the battery to the bulb without going through the whole wire. Electroboom's criticism is that even if you're not misdirected by the setup, there's still a missing assumption required to arrive at the same answer as Veritasium. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_model_Heaviside.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_model_Heaviside.sv...