Effective theory
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Effective theory
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In science, an effective theory is a scientific theory which proposes to describe a certain set of observations, 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 effect, without proposing to model adequately any of the causes which contribute to the effect. For example, effective field theory is a method
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