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CICS
The idea of complete and incomplete co-ordinate systems (CICS) was originated by Steve Bryant, and is published on his web site "Relativity Challenge". His definitions of the co-ordinate systems are:
"A Complete Coordinate System is one in which the phenomena under observation (or its associated travel medium) is contained within the coordinate system and moves with it at velocity v."
"An Incomplete Coordinate System is one in which the phenomena under observation (or its associated travel medium) is not completely contained within the coordinate system and does not move with it at velocity v."
Bryant suggests that the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment was apparently negative because the results were analysed as if the experiment had taken place in a complete co-ordinate system. When re-interpreted as being an incomplete co-ordinate system, the motion of the Earth with respect to the luminiferous aether or light medium had been detected. Hence there is no need to assume the spatial contraction and time dilation, as described by the Lorentz transformation, which is central to Einstein's Special and General Theories of Relativity.
A fuller explanation of CICS may be found on the Relativity Challenge web site.
