The Unspoken Dangers of LED Lighting Revealed by Science
Now available: important new podcast interview with Dr Nisa Khan, world-leading expert on LED lights, revealing the unspoken dangers of long-term exposure to this novel form of commercial radiative lighting.
Dr Nisa Khan is holder of 10 US scientific patents, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and appears in Who’s Who listed as a world authority in this field. Dr Khan has been sounding a warning for several years over the wholesale commercial applications of electromagnetic radiation in our smartphones, Internet of Things (IOT), Wi-Fi, LED lights and related systems.
Full video below:
Dr Khan recently featured in a detailed interview by Jeremy Nell of Jerm Warfare. Nell summarizes the presentation for viewers untrained in the complexities of the science:
“Up until this conversation with Nisa, I was in a committed relationship with LED lighting. Now, however, our relationship is on rocky ground. As somebody who colours in pictures and talks to people for a living, I struggle with complex scientific discussions like this, but here’s my summary for those of you who are like me:
1) LED lighting is different from natural light sources like the sun and fire, and it is light pollution when it does not emit pure white light.
2) The three-dimensional nature of light and the two-dimensional nature of artificial light make a huge difference to our health.
3) Understanding Gauss’s law can lead to better illumination and healthier environments.
4) LED lighting is harmful because it is two-dimensional.
5) Mainstream science lacks a comprehensive understanding of light.
6) The use of natural light sources, such as fire and candles, is optimal for human health.
“Ask yourself, math or not, better light detection or not, colour-temperature or not: do LED headlights bother you more than halogen headlights?”
The full interview is at jermwarfare.com
LED lights are becoming ubiquitous in our urban environment, on our roads and transport infrastructure and even in our homes. where we unwittingly regard it as another benign technology. As Nell’s Jerm Warfare continues:
“LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. It is a semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. LEDs are used in a wide range of applications, from indicator lights on devices to street lighting to cars and large display screens. They are known for their efficiency, long life, and low energy consumption compared to traditional light sources like incandescent bulbs.”
In a detailed scientific paper published at Principia Scientific International titled Did Newton and Gauss Prove Their Laws? (Why Are Practical Or Analytical Proofs For Foremost Physics Laws Missing From Mainstream?), Dr Khan explains why most colleagues in the scientific community still misunderstand the full implications.
In September 2022 The Guardian newspaper in a story title ‘Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health,’ reported on new research published in the journal Science Advances. However, this study only scratched the surface as it focused on the more obvious impacts of blue light pollution on melatonin production, disrupting sleep patterns.
Darren Evans, professor of ecology and conservation at Newcastle University, who was not involved in the study, hailed it as “an extraordinary piece of work”, and said it aligned with his own findings on how local street lighting has dramatically reduced the abundance of nocturnal insect populations.
The transition to LEDs in the UK “poorly considered” the ecological and human costs of such a policy, said Evans.
Incidents and reports on side effects of exposure to LED lighting are on the rise. As Dr Khan warns:
“Ask yourself, math or not, better light detection or not, colour-temperature or not: do LED headlights bother you more than halogen headlights?”
Check out the full interview at jermwarfare.com
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Howdy
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“Ask yourself, math or not, better light detection or not, colour-temperature or not: do LED headlights bother you more than halogen headlights?”
No, but misaligned headlamps of any sort do. Even the old tungsten sealed-beam is a problem in dark conditions when set too high.
Why no mention of discharge lamps? I’ve mentioned this several times over the posted articles and nothing ever said. HID hurt. The blue tint ones are usual.
“The results speak for themselves: the GTR Lighting Ultra 2, the SV4, and the 55-Watt HID kit were the brightest. You can’t just go with one-size-fits-all type products, and that’s why at Headlight Revolution, we test.”
https://blog.headlightrevolution.com/hid-vs-led-which-is-brighter
“LED headlight bulbs are better and brighter in reflector headlamps, while HIDs are better and brighter in projector lenses.”
https://www.xenonpro.com/led-vs-xenon-hid-headlights-which-are-better
Get HID as an aftermarket fitment. Instant illegal and blinding glow. It lamps won’t be aligned for correct height adjustment etc afterwards, even worse.
I guess the research is not complete if a Halogen is the only other contender.
I sit in front of an led monitor, I have an led side lamp, my torch is led, my variable PSU has leds, my fish tanks, and I experiment with leds.
I don’t have letters after my name, but I am aware of myself and my experiences, and such tell me what is best for me. How do I feel? GREAT!!
That’s all I have to say.
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They push them because they can be used for optogenetics.
They’ve known about optogenetics for decades; well before cells phones. Important because it highlights that they knew about blue light causing neuronal spiking and inhibition before putting it in the phones.
Amazon Prime’s ‘The Consultant’ even points out the use. He takes over a video game company and looks into the research. After discovering that he can manipulate user’s brains, he fires a bunch of staff and puts out a garbage game that performs very well (because he’s manipulating their brains).
TikTok, which is in cell phone source code with priveleged access, uses the same techniques, as does most of social media. Sheep often feel like their timelines ‘aren’t keeping up’ (brains getting fried).
Research from the 60’s showed that manipulation of the subthalamus is possible. One of the notable effects of this is the subject twisting and rolling their head in a clockwise fashion. There are videos from China showing this same sort of head movement, often after looking at a device or walking under a street lamp.
7-transmembrane and luminopsins.
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Howdy
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https://www.scientifica.uk.com/learning-zone/optogenetics-shedding-light-on-the-brains-secrets
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Tom
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Trust the science? Whose science? I assume anymore than most consumer and business products are not well tested. Being forced by government and other entities into a certain behavior curdles my guts. That’s the first sign that science has little do to with it.
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RockyTSquirrel
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Agree Tom,
If citizens have to be forced into using a product or service,
Be looking for the hook, there is money being made by a nefarious actor somewhere..
For the US Government, it’s the “kick-back”,
Capitalism, would dictate that the purchaser will gravitate to the best product or service for the value their paying..
When the market is manipulated (by government interference), to a certain product or service,
then you can always look for the Hook..
. . .
RTS
(as requested, this is an opinion and or SARCASM)
“Let’s Go, Brandon” – “Pedo-Joe” (F.J.B.)
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Two dimensional light? Three dimensional light? If such ideas had any meaning they’d have been in physics classes for decades now.
If by 2D light the reference is to blue light from the LED and downconverted light to longer wavelengths (yellow) to make white, yes, the early cool white LEDs were like that. Today’s broad spectrum phosphors have none of those tendencies.
“1) LED lighting is different from natural light sources like the sun and fire, and it is light pollution when it does not emit pure white light.”
This is just gobbledygook. White light isn’t “pure light” it’s a combination of light from wavelengths in the 400-700 nm spectrum. Has this person never used a prism with sunlight?? As phosphors have improved, LEDs emit white light closer to the solar spectrum because there are broader phosphors that cover more of the visible light spectrum.
“5) Mainstream science lacks a comprehensive understanding of light.” No, the person stating this lacks even the basic fundamentals of light knowledge.
“Ask yourself, math or not, better light detection or not, colour-temperature or not: do LED headlights bother you more than halogen headlights?”
Go back to headlights 101. Understand the concept of headlight patterns, and what glare is. The patterns are poorly controlled in the US (Europe controls headlight patterns far, far more), spilling light everywhere, and the beam designs often have a fundamental problem with glare (that’s not the total amount of light, but the size of the light source producing that amount of light as it enters the eye).
Usually the articles on this site are decent, but this is just rubbish.
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Dr. M. Nisa Khan
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HID headlights or other gas-discharge headlights aren’t good either for us to look at. For those, spectrum is the main culprit and not the light distribution in 3D space. For LEDs, both the spectrum and 3D light distribution are huge problems and the two are related in a way that is NOT natural whatsoever. In layman’s terms, light from an LED light – regardless of phosphor, optics or anything – has different spectrum and different intensity at every angle (solid angle) in 3D space – overwhelming our neurological process with millions of different frequencies of light in space and time at different speeds over different zones! This is nothing short of dangerous for all natural species! Only LEDs and lasers have this problem – not HIDs or other gas discharge lights.
I shall not address other comments here. Those not appreciating or understanding my work can go about their ways. There are millions of other people who do appreciate my work. Flow well.
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When I drive to work before sunrise I wear yellow tinted polarized glasses because of the LED headlights. When a car comes over a hill or rise they shine right into the eyes and are much brighter than halogen or incandescent headlights. The glasses help a little but they are still too bright.
I use LED grow lights to start garden seeds indoors. I block them from view of them using aluminum foil because they irritate my eyes.
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Dr. M. Nisa Khan
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Hello Herb,
I do the same to block my eyes from LED lights.
I think it is OK to kick start garden seeds indoors. But after they grow a little, please use more natural light in terms of light intensity distribution in space.
Best,
Nisa
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Howdy
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How do you know the light fittings of a distant vehicle are led Herb?
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Herb Rose
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Hi Howdy,
They are brighter and whiter than halogens or incandescent even with the glasses. When they come over a rise they are like looking into high beams because there is no dimming of them. When the car passes you can tell which type of lights they are.
When working on or around the started plants, with LED your eyes and eventually your head hurts. This did not happen when I used florescent or incandescent grow lights.
Herb
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Howdy
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“They are brighter and whiter than halogens or incandescent even with the glasses.”
So are HID, which I’ve allready covered. It seems HID is an elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about.
How can you tell the type as it passes, when it is illuminated and so bright? I can’t even see beyond the light output into the bulb socket when the vehicle is 10 feet ahead..
What if it’s a projector lamp?
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Hi Howdy,
Get some tinted polarized glasses and try it yourself and see if you can detect he difference..It is most noticeable when they came down a hill and the lights shines directly in your eyes.
For halogen the light emitter is a 2 inch circle at the center and is yellower while LED comes in different shapes depending on the type of car and is without a center source.
Herb
Howdy
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Led headlights don’t bother me Herb. Daylight white leds as used in the rear of lcd screens are exceedingly bright, but they don’t bother me either.
Coming from the brow of a hill is due to the dipped beam directed down and to the side. It’s a fleeting hazard that has allways existed.
Halogen bulbs come in various sizes, both large and small. 10mm is usual in a lot of cases, certainly smaller than 2 inches.
Some images showing the beam patterns of different light systems
https://www.hella.com/techworld/uk/Technical/Automotive-lighting/Light-distribution-834/
Halogen are a warmer colour than daylight white leds, but the other options of lamp can be just the same. It is not restricted to leds only.
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May as well post this one too:
https://www.naoevolighting.com/blogs/news/led-headlight-bulb-light-beam-pattern-all-you-need-to-know
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All of what Herb is saying can be explained with science and mathematics. Some people see both spatial and temporal frequencies – which are both color or intensity changing in space and time. LEDs producing a Lambertian 3D light distribution reveals that LED lighting is both directive (much more than a flashlight made from incandescent or halogen) as well as this distribution contains many spatial and temporal frequencies which can be experienced with some movement of yourself and the LED light. Polarized glasses can accentuate the sharp drop-off of intensities in space and time – thus showing very unnatural (quick and slow and everything in between) behavior of light density change in space and time. This is where Fourier Transforms will help to analyze LED light. Unfortunately no electrical engineer/physicist/mathematician/lighting-expert I know that can do this – but me. Thus my challenge that today’s academia really don’t understand what Fourier Transform relations really are.
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LED headlights don’t bother every single human being on earth. However, there have been enough surveys and studies that reveal that about 85% of the people are very bothered by them. This is more or less true all around the world. Those who aren’t allergic to sugar or peanuts shouldn’t tell others it doesn’t make any sense for anyone to be allergic to sugar or peanuts.
There just are inherent differences among biological species and good doctors know this quite well.
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Howdy
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Herb has described what he saw in passing while driving a vehicle, this cannot be explained by mathematics, and certainly not science, since assumption of something being what one expects it to be without inspection and verification is not a scientific method of data collection.
I expected that would have been pointed out by others of greater intelligence than myself before I had to bring it into focus.
“Those who aren’t allergic to sugar or peanuts shouldn’t tell others it doesn’t make any sense for anyone to be allergic to sugar or peanuts.”
Nobody has, and please refrain from implying I brought others into the equation when I did not. My words were about myself, I, nobody else, so I never ‘told others’ anything of the sort, but then by the same rule, it should also not be implied “The Unspoken Dangers of leds” apply to all when they do not. Perhaps clarify that rather critical point?
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I can see the difference as well. They are blinding. If I have room to maneuver, I get away or take a turn instead of dealing with them. If I do not, & I can slow or stop so I can safely look away or close my eyes til they pass, I do it. It’s very uncomfortable, for me. Perhaps eye color has something to do with it? Green, hazel…
Since I am never ‘blinded’ by headlights on older cars, I can attest to what type of headlights I’m dealing with, passing. No special glasses are needed.. The same is true for outdoor lighting in my neighborhood ….leds are blinding, others not so much. I, for one, don’t spend any more time than necessary looking directly into Any light source.. I have noticed that I’m light sensitive in some stores now and spend as little time as possible in them. After the led revolution, I once went into a Christmas store…NEVER AGAIN! I felt slightly dizzy, disoriented,
Almost like a hangover, when leaving, that lasted a couple hours. You’re certainly welcome to your options, certainly free to use and stare into LED or tout their benifits. But we’ll see who has vision impairment n the future. Considering human physiology was never built for our lighted world, I wonder how much we have lost. Sound as well. How acute would our hearing, vision be w/o the constant onslaught we have experienced since the 70’s….weakening of the species, incrementally.
Thank you Dr. Khan, from trying to shed light on this….
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I am not here to carry on conversations with those who have very limited knowledge of mathematics and science.
Mathematics does describe everything one sees by means of their eyes. If Newton’s and other scientists’ or mathematicians’ math don’t explain such doesn’t mean real mathematics can’t.
Real mathematics is that which partly was adopted by Aryabhata who headed the Nalanda University later burnt down by Bhaktiyar Khilji much before Europe got out of the dark, middle ages. Those who care to learn about this should do so by doing their own research.
Finally I don’t talk to someone name with fake names. If you are real, be real.
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Howdy
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Your claim about Herb’s observations are not mathematics, nor science, no matter how you describe it. There are no facts to prove what he actually saw is what he claims, yet you back up that claim with the word science in the absence of hard evidence. That you hold me as lesser doesn’t interest me, and the reader can decide for themself.
Not only that, you took a matter that was scientific discussion and moved it into the personal when you claimed:
“Those who aren’t allergic to sugar or peanuts shouldn’t tell others it doesn’t make any sense for anyone to be allergic to sugar or peanuts.”
That came purely from you without any provocation, or existence of evidence to suggest it was even implied by me. It was unreasonable.
You don’t talk to people with fake names? You just did, and have several times in the past.
It is a ‘handle’, not fake in any way.
Still, as regards talking to nom de plume commenters, perhaps you should spare a thought for the reasons people do it, on PSI published articles included, where it is condoned.
I would never expect these words, or explanations from one such as yourself. You should have let it sleep, but thank you for giving me the opportunity to get the rest of this in the open.
I have nothing further to say to you, nor will I read any further comments you add.
Take care of yourself Dr Khan, and good bye.
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Dr. M. Nisa Khan
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I answered to Seriously after I wrote that I don’t talk with fake names. It is because he or she is suffering from LED car headlights, etc. There was a question there in terms of the color of someone’s eyes.
My argument about peanut allergy is science. If you don’t agree, that’s fine.
Yes people read all the comments here and they will judge all of us. ‘Seriously’ here clearly did that if you read his or her comment.
I can’t teach anyone good science or mathematics in this forum. I have published my scientific work on LEDs even in the lame peer-reviewed community that severely lacks what real and science and mathematics are all about. I have plenty of scientific publications in ResearchGate – much of that are also peer-reviewed.
You are welcome to challenge me in public by bringing the best scientific and mathematical personalities of the world. The debate must be aired in real time with audio and video all around the world. If you or anyone can prove what I written about LEDs and wireless radiation dangers, I will give you $100,000. If I prove you all wrong about your scientific and mathematical claims. you and others give me that money. Let’s go.
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Dr. M. Nisa Khan
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Since I cannot edit what I have written above, I am saying that if you can prove me wrong in a public forum along with whatever supporters you might bring, I’ll give you the money. If I prove you and your team wrong, you give me the money. Let’s go.
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Dr. M. Nisa Khan
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Dear Seriously,
Glad you found my podcast and work useful. Yes – if LED lights are not taken off public domains, we are all going to be visually impaired in not too distant in the future. Those who think LED lights, such as those in car headlights and tail lights are just fine, their neurological systems aren’t sensitive to the unnatural light cast from them in space which can be decomposed into freakish space-time activities by means of a slew of unnatural spatial and temporal frequencies. But their brain and the entire biological system are still aware of this and over time their health will degrade in multitude of ways.
It isn’t blue/hazel or light color eyes. I have brown eyes and I do exactly the same things you do to avoid LED car lights when I drive. I can explain what is bothering you, me and others. But it will take quite a long time.
Just avoid LED lighting as much as you can and let’s hope they are banned one of these days. Sooner rather than later.
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