Living Reviews in Relativity (Jan 2004)

Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory

  • Burgess Cliff P.

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Vol. 7
p. 5

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This article is meant as a summary and introduction to the ideas of effective field theory as applied to gravitational systems, ideas which provide the theoretical foundations for the modern use of general relativity as a theory from which precise predictions are possible.

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