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

Cliff P. Burgess

Physics Department
McGill University
3600 University Street
Montréal, Québec
Canada, H3A 2T8
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(Accepted on 16 March 2004)

(Published on 08 April 2004)

Abstract

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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