PIRSA:23100058

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http://pirsa.org/23100058

Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity

Donoghue, J. (2023). Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. http://pirsa.org/23100058

Donoghue, John. Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Oct. 23, 2023, http://pirsa.org/23100058 

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            url = {http://pirsa.org/23100058},
            author = {Donoghue, John},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2023},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:23100058 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/23100058}}
          }

John Donoghue University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Abstract

I will briefly review the key concepts underlying the Effective Field Theory of General Relativity, and give a couple of examples of how it works. Then I will describe seven lessons which can be extracted from the theory. Finally I discuss some of the limitations of the EFT framework.