LED Lights are a Danger to Humanity | Jerm Warfare

Jeremy (0:30)

My name is Jerm, this is Jerm Warfare, the Battle of Ideas.

Oh, it's been a few years, Nisa Khan. Thank you for joining me again in The Trenches.

Nisa Khan (0:41)

It's my pleasure, Jeremy. Yes, it has been a few years, so looking forward to refreshing the conversation.

Jeremy (0:48)

I've had a number of requests, actually, asking to have you back on, because very, very few people discuss the dangers of LED lighting, and it's everywhere. I was recently in China, and it's everywhere. It's everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

Nisa Khan (1:07)

Yes, it is everywhere. China is a place where they are overdoing it, but every other big city, almost the same story, it gets getting extremely difficult to drive. People have given up driving at night, myself included, during the day, because I am sensitive to light activities, which is a very tricky thing, because just about everything in existence is related to a light activity, which is both a spatial concept and a time, transient or temporal concept, and they work together. So the mathematics of it is very difficult, and people just simplify it, but the reality is they work together, and this is the way human beings relate to everything that happens around us. So whether we can do the mathematics or not, we are humans and we are experiencing light the way, the natural way, and there's nothing we can do about it.

So there are more sensitive people who see these light activities, and there are people who don't. And lucky for them, because those of us who do are going a little bit crazy.

Jeremy (2:33)

So just for those who don't know, you're a physicist and an electrical engineer, founder of IEM, LED lighting technologies, if I remember correctly. And also you authored a book called Understanding LED Illumination, I think back in 2013, is that right?

Nisa Khan (2:51)

That is correct. So that, when I wrote the book, there were a few novel things explaining the basic problem of LED lighting. And it was interesting that it did somehow pass the review. Some people objected to it, but I then came up with very strong rebuttal. And the book was published by the world's largest scientific and outside of scientific publisher, Taylor and Francis.

Their scientific arm is called CRC Press, which goes back over 100 years. So it was very nice of the main editor of CRC Press to pick up on what I was saying. So she supported me and she understood what I was saying. So the book, although was peer reviewed, complained by a few people because they didn't want some things published, we did get it published. And so the good news is just about 99% of the book is mainstream. So it is a very popular book around the world now, used in many, many big universities around the world, including Japan, India, Europe, Europe that includes Germany, France. In the US, there is about something like 800 universities, Canada, and Australia. So the good news is many people are benefiting because I speak their peer-reviewed language most of the time, with one caveat that basically says that flat light is a problem and I actually prove it. And then in 2024, I wrote another book, and by 2024, I am now out of mainstream, and that is by choice.

And I have decided to not publish anything through this mainstream peer-review. So I went and published a book in 2024 on my own through Amazon. It's self-publishing, and it's called Blinding LED Headlights, The Biggest Blunder of Modern Science. So in that book, I explained more thoroughly what is the root problem in math and physics and engineering that people are missing, and the outcome is that people don't recognize what they're measuring is really not what's really happening, and what, as I said before, what humans are experiencing. So in order to bring in the reality of what humans are experiencing, you really need to solve a 3D problem and not a 2D problem. And we discussed that last time because you are a wonderful cartoonist, and of course, cartoons are fun, but at the same time, they're 2D. So 2D has its uses, applications, but at the same time, what we experience is in three-dimensional reality.

And that 3D reality has to use a more comprehensive, realistic math and physics. So that's what I explain in the book.

Jeremy (6:29)

Yeah. So you said that you can speak in peer-reviewed language. My hope is that you will not do that with me and that you'll speak on peasant-level language.

Because this is quite a complicated topic to wrap your head around.

But your core argument is, it's unique. I think everybody kind of knows, we kind of feel that there's something different and something perhaps wrong about LED lights. We can't quite pin it. One of the common arguments is that, well, that's the blue light. We must just remove that. But it's not actually that that you're arguing. You're saying that LEDs themselves are flat radiators. They're very, very small flat chips. And the sun or candle light or even an old incandescent light bulb doesn't operate like that.