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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SUBJECT        Specw.ative Paper by li KardubeY and           DATE OISTlt.        10Apr72
               /\ Sakharov on Charged Hus in Cpa.;.,e
               nt Cont'erenee on Orici,'13 or Lite,           NO. PAGH        2
               Armenia, 6-6 September 1971/IAw
               Scientific Level ot' Other S~v:let                             DCS Cue ST,026
               Pnpers

DATE Of INFO.        6-8 September 1911
PLACE & DATE ACQ. BY SOURCE     Yerevan/6-6 September 1971
                THr4i IS UNEVAWATEO INFORMATION
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SOURCE         US cithen!                                           fni1a report consists                 ..
               or edited abstracts trom a 1 etter recel ved from a reliable colleague
               who attended the Yerevan Conference,
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         l,    At the Conference on the Origins of Lite in Yerevo.n, Armenia, $SR,
              6-8 Septemher 1971, NS ~.ardashev, Ins titute for Sp~c~ Research, Moscov,                     I
              r e ad an interesting but highly Dpeculative paper he had prepared on
              r.enera.l relativity and the possibility of a bod;f collap3inc into a
              black hole in apace. His co-author vas tbe internationally f81110us
              theoretica.l. physicist, Andrei D Su.harov. Y..o.rda.ohev iD very much like
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              hi s superior and former teacher at the Institute, IS Shklovskiy, in
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              his cq>proaeh to acientific problems. Ile is not at'raid to speculate in
              his effort to find a solution,                                                                I  I

         2.   The Kardnshev-Sakharov paper concerned the authors' study of vhat hnppene
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              when a charged mass or bod,v collapses in space. Knrdn.:.hcv stnteci that,
              if it \·~re not cha.ri;ed, the mass would Just co llnpse pas t the point of
              ~ravitational singularity and be gone forever. In other words, the mass
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              vould close in on itself and have no more contact with t he outside                              I
              world. 'l'he Soviets speculated on what vould happen 1 f the mass were
              charged. '!'hey stated that t hen the mnse vould be o.ble to boW1ce. It
              would collapse but boW1ce back out. Hovcver, the mass will come back
              into n different part of space time.

         3.   After his presentation, Kardashev told a US attendee that Sakharov vo.s
              mo~tly interested in this charced mass phenomenon study becaus e i t in­
              d.i.catcs that the structure of space may be much more complicated than
              i s preaently thought. Kardashev vas interested i n the s t udy from t he
              vi evpoint or what implications it has for o.strophysi c~ , provided the
              basic pnysics of the phenomenon 1s correct, 'l'he US attendee f elt the
              a uthors • speculation vas a little fantastic and they had tllkcn off in
              Ii rather vild vo.y.  lfovcver, he believed their paper vas grounded in
              e ood and sound physica,
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