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

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COUNTRY USSR REPORT NO. 00-B-321/07709-72. 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/Low Scientific Level of Other Soviet Papers DATE DISTR. 10 Apr 72 NO. PAGES 2 REFERENCES DCS Case 57,026

DATE OF INFO. 6-8 September 1971 PLACE & DATE ACQ. BY SOURCE Yerevan/6-8 September 1971 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

SOURCE US citizen [HW: This report consists of edited abstracts from a letter received from a reliable colleague who attended the Yerevan Conference.]

1. 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.

2. 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. In other words, the mass would close in on itself and have no…

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