SPECULATIVE PAPER BY N KARDASHEV AND A SAKHAROV

------------------ Approved f o r Re l ease 2026 ..• DIIECTOIATI Of INTWIOOICI ··-··----------------------~- .···-··----· -- -• ----.. ------ ___....,._ Intelligence Information Report COUNTRY USSH REPOP.TNO. 00-B-'321/0770')-72· 10Apr72 SUBJECT Specw.ative Paper by li KardubeY and DATE OISTlt. /\ 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 SOURCE US cithen! fni1a report consists or edited abstracts trom a1 etter recelved from a reliable colleague who attended the Yerevan Conference, .. l, 2. 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, 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 his superior and former teacher at the Institute, IS Shklovskiy, in his cq>proaeh to acientific problems. Ile is not at'raid to speculate in his effort to find a solution, The Kardnshev-Sakharov paper concerned the authors' study of vhat hnppene 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 collnpse pas t the point of ~ravitational singularity and be gone forever. In other words, the mass vould close in on itself and have no more contact with t he outside ' i I l ·1 I I I I I 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 beca us e it 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 vievpoint or what implications it has for o.strophysic~ , provided the basic pnysics of the phenomenon 1s correct, 'l'he US attendee f elt the authors • 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, . I I . ' s 5 4 4 J J 2 2