A physics lesson featuring Betelgeuse and a 19th Century Romantic poet

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On the 15th of January in Romania we celebrate the birthday of Mihai Eminescu, our most famous poet. Born in 1950, he is sort of like our Lord Byron, if you will. Think: loads of poems about the troubled genius capable only of impossible love for an ingenue muse who’s too ingenue to comprehend his genius; and about dreamy, magnificent nature. Like Byron as well, he was…