Twins Paradox - but with a different spin

In summary, the classical Twin Paradox is a thought experiment involving two twins, A and B, who are standing on each other's shoulders and facing in opposite directions. They are both tethered to a pole with synchronized clocks and jetpacks. Both twins then accelerate in opposite directions around a 1ly circumference path and maintain a constant velocity of .5c for 100 years. From the perspective of the pole, both twins will experience time dilation and age at the same rate. However, from the perspective of each other, they will see each other's clocks as running slower due to their relative motion. This scenario is not equivalent to the more traditional Twin Paradox because both twins are constantly accelerating, making their reference frames non-inert
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Do we know the relative velocity that a spinning twin sees, when looking at the other twin?

There is a formula into which we can plug the velocity, and then the formula produces the rate of a clock that is seen by a twin looking at the other twin's clock.

Relativistic Doppler shift is the name of the formula.
 
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Here is an article about an experiment that shows the time shift between two atomic clocks, one stationary and one flown around the world, that were reunited at the stationary lab and compared.

http://www.npl.co.uk/news/time-flies

According to this article, and others I have found, the relative speed causes the traveling clock to run slower and the difference in gravity causes the stationary clock to run slower, because gravity is stonger on the ground. The net effect is that the traveling clock has gained time relative to the stationary clock on the ground, because the effect of gravity, in this experiment, is more pronounced than the effect due to the speed.
 

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