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A point that this article misses is that (most theorists nowadays believe that) almost all the useful quantum field theories we have, including the Standard Model of particle physics, are effective field theories. That's the moral behind the renormalization group. -- CYD

GR and EFT

Can someone give me their opinion on these edits that were done to the general relativity article? They impress me as an overly rosely view of the association between GR and EFT given the way things are discussed in this article. Pervect claims that these are reasonable edits, but I had not heard of this theory (or paradigm) before. --EMS | Talk 14:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Philosophy and Renormalization Group

I added a brief section on the Philosophy of Effective field theories. This, I feel, is quite important and deserves a separate section.

I also rewrote the section on R-G flow since I felt that was not necessarily very clear. Perusnarpk (talk) 20:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 Can someone give me their opinion on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_relativity&diff=72069903&oldid=72060122 these edits] that were done to the [[general relativity]] article?  They impress me as an overly rosely view of the association between GR and EFT given the way things are discussed in this article.  [[User:Pervect|Pervect]] claims that these are reasonable edits, but I had not heard of this theory (or paradigm) before. --[[User:ems57fcva|EMS]] | [[User_talk:ems57fcva|Talk]] 14:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
+== Philosophy and Renormalization Group ==
+I added a brief section on the Philosophy of Effective field theories. This, I feel, is quite important and deserves a separate section.
+I also rewrote the section on R-G flow since I felt that was not necessarily very clear. [[User:Perusnarpk|Perusnarpk]] ([[User talk:Perusnarpk|talk]]) 20:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)