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May 5, 2008 at 4:05 am

(1) Luboš Motl says:

The proof that there was no aether didn’t lead to “wave particle duality” (quantum mechanics) but to “relativity”, which is something completely different, and even this statement is incorrect because Einstein was practically unaware of these experiments.

May 5, 2008 at 8:57 am

(2) physics says:

Actually, it laid the foundation for both wave particle duality and relativity. Einstein presented his photon theory of light and his initial papers on relativity in 1905, and both were informed by the same considerations - how to explain the behavior of light energy given the results of Michelson-Morley.