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Abstract
1
Introduction
1.1
Against the split brain
1.2
Identifying where the problems lie
1.3
A road map
2
Effective Field Theories
2.1
The utility of low-energy approximations
2.2
A toy example
2.3
The toy model revisited
2.4
Lessons learned
2.5
Predictiveness and power counting
2.6
The effective Lagrangian logic
2.7
The meaning of renormalizability
3
Low-Energy Quantum Gravity
3.1
General relativity as an effective theory
3.2
Power counting
3.3
Effective field theory in curved space
4
Explicit Quantum Calculations
4.1
Non-relativistic point masses in three spatial dimensions
4.2
Co-dimension two and cosmic strings
5
Conclusions
6
Acknowledgements
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