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Effective Field Theory

An effective field theory is an approximation of a physical theory such as Quantum Field Theory or statistical mechanics to describe a certain phenomenon in a simplified manner, for specific cases.

Both Quantum Field Theory and the theory of general relativity can be seen as effective theories of the still unknown theory of everything.

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