When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

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Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and X, formerly Twitter (which he has owned since 2022). Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency....

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