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

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Key: burgess2004qgravity
Authors: Burgess, C.P.
Issued: 2004
Type: article-journal
Container: Living Reviews in Relativity
Volume: 7
Pages: 5
DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2004-5
URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5253842/

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Claims

non-renormalizable

Naive attempts to treat gravity as a quantum field theory produce a non-renormalizable theory, blocking the standard approaches used to quantize the other fundamental forces.

"it was recognized early on that general relativity is not renormalizable"

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