Chapter 37, Problem 007The premise of the Planet of the Apes movies and book is that hibernating astronauts travel far into Earth's future, to a time when human civilization has been replaced by anape civilization. Considering only special relativity, determine how far into Earth's future the astronauts would travel if they slept for 102 y while traveling relative to Earth witha speed of 0.997 c, first outward from Earth and then back again.NumberUnitsthe tolerance is +/-2%

Given The speed of the astronaut (v) = 0.997 c The time spent by the astronaut t0 = 102 y…

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