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28:, but explicitly without the claim or implication that the mechanism used by the theory has a direct counterpart in the actual causes of the observed phenomena to which the theory is fitted. That means that the theory proposes to model a certain 82:, and any other currently known physical theory, could be described as "effective", as in being the "low energy limit" of an as-yet unknown " 43:
is a method used to describe physical theories when there is a hierarchy of scales. Effective field theories in physics can include
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in which the fields are treated as fundamental, and effective theories describing phenomena in
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Approaches to Fundamental Physics: An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas
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treats vibrations of the solid-state lattice as a "
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Index

scientific theory
observations
effective field theory
quantum field theories
solid-state physics
BCS theory
superconduction
field
really
phonons
quasiparticles
quantum field theory
Theory of Everything
Effective mass (solid-state physics)
Emergence
Empirism
Epistemology
Heuristics
Phenomenological model
Phenomenology (physics)
Scientific method
Turing test
ISBN
978-3-540-71115-5
Category
Scientific theories

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