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Nov 23, 2016 at 16:17 history bounty ended Emilio Pisanty
Nov 22, 2016 at 4:23 comment added flippiefanus The normal modes are not necessarily plane waves. It would depend on the specific system that is being considered. To get plane waves as the normal modes, one would need to assume that the crystal extends to infinity in all directions.
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Sep 26, 2013 at 23:49 comment added Mark Mitchison @Slaviks Right, but the key question (as I understand it) is whether the effective field theory approximates string theory or some deeper structure of the vacuum itself. Or something else :)
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Sep 26, 2013 at 20:44 comment added Slaviks Great answer. But there are no reasons whatsoever beyond faith for SM to be any different from an effective field theory valid on a finite scale of log-energy.
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