%0 Journal Article %T Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory %A Burgess Cliff P. %J Living Reviews in Relativity %D 2004 %I Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics %X This article is meant as a summary and introduction to the ideas of effective field theory as applied to gravitational systems, ideas which provide the theoretical foundations for the modern use of general relativity as a theory from which precise predictions are possible. %K Quantum General Relativity %U http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2004-5