The textbooks in school if you take an astronomy course, they will say you know boys and girls it takes 100,000 years for a red giant to evolve into a white dwarf. By the way, all of the star evolution so to speak, is backwards, it is going downhill, it is losing. They say it would take 20 super novas to create enough energy to create a star. Wait a minute, now 20 of them have to explode before you can make one? That looks like a winning proposition, doesn’t it? You got to loose 20 to gain one, well, how did we get them all then? By the way, nobody has ever seen one form. We have seen lots of them blow up, but nobody has ever proven one star forming. They dream about it, they hope it is out there in the crab nebulae, but it has never been observed. But it was observed nearly 2,000 years ago or so that Cirrus, the brightest star in the sky tonight, Cirrus is, it was a red star. All of the ancient astronomers described it as being red: Cynica said it was red, the Egyptian hieroglyphics said it was red. Yet today, Cirrus was is a white dwarf indicating it happens in less than 2,000 years. It does not take 100,000 years like they said.