CIA-UAP-008, Speculative Paper By N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins Of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Low Scientific Level Of Other Soviet Papers

[PAGE 1] Approved for Release 2026. DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence Information Report. COUNTRY: USSR. REPORT NO. 00-B-321/07707-72. DATE DISTR.: 10 Apr 72. SUBJECT: Speculative Paper by N. Kardashev and A. Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Also Scientific Level of Other Soviet DCS [Directorate of Central Sciences?] Papers, Case ST-1026. NO. PAGES: 2. DATE OF INFO.: 6-8 September 1971. PLACE & DATE ACQ. BY SOURCE: Yerevan/6-8 September 1971. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE: US citizen. This report consists of edited abstracts from a letter received from a reliable colleague who attended the Yerevan Conference. 1-2. At the Conference on the Origins of Life in Yerevan, Armenia, SSR, 6-8 September 1971, N.S. Kardashev, Institute for Space Research, Moscow, read an interesting but highly speculative paper he had prepared on general relativity and the possibility of a body collapsing into a black hole in space. His co-author was the internationally famous theoretical physicist, Andrei D. Sakharov. Kardashev is very much like his superior and former teacher at the Institute, I.S. Shklovskiy, in his approach to scientific problems; he is not afraid to speculate in his effort to find a solution. The Kardashev-Sakharov paper concerned the authors' study of what happens when a charged mass or body collapses in space. Kardashev stated that if it were not charged, the mass would just collapse past the point of gravitational singularity and be gone forever -- the mass would close in on itself and have no more contact with the outside world. The Soviets speculated on what would happen if the mass were charged: they stated that then the mass would be able to bounce -- it would collapse but bounce back out. However, the mass will come back into a different part of space-time. 3. After his presentation, Kardashev told a US attendee that Sakharov was mostly interested in this charged-mass phenomenon study because it indicates that the structure of space may be much more complicated than is presently thought. Kardashev was interested in the study from the viewpoint of what implications it has for astrophysics, provided the basic physics of the phenomenon is correct. The US attendee felt the authors' speculation was 'a little fantastic' and that they had 'taken off in a rather wild way'; however, he believed their paper was grounded in good and sound physics. [Distribution/routing numbers: 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2] [PAGE 2] [No extractable text -- image-only scan page without an OCR text layer in the source PDF.]