Michelson-Morely Experiment and wave-particle duality

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I may be jumping the gun here, so to speak as I haven't yet progressed to the next chapter in the reading, but the text said that the development of General Relativity was the explanation for the "failed" Michelson-Morely experiment. The lecture hinted at Newton's corpiscular view and Locke's (and most others's) acceptance of the wave nature of light. Is this getting at the wave-particle duality of light? As I said, I may be jumping ahead and my question may be answered in the next chapter. We talked about this behavior of light in my General Chemistry class, but we didn't talk about it as being part of relativity. (I suppose that WOW! moment is saved for the physicists). 

[G. Randolph Mayes]

Things will get sorted out as you go along. GR is a generalization of SR to non inertial reference frames, so it does contain this explanation, but we normally speak of SR as the theory that explained the failure of M&M to detect the ether, at least in the sense that SR predicts their results without assuming assuming the existence of an ether.

Physicists do seem to get more than their share of those moments, but fortunately they're nice enough to share a few of them with us.