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The exploitation of a property whose name begins with this word was repopularized by a 1998 study of a truncated ERGE (“E-R-G-E”) by Martin Reuter, after it was first proposed in a 1979 paper by Steven Weinberg on quantum gravity. A property whose name begins with this word prevents divergences in the UV limit in perturbatively nonrenormalizable quantum field theories, provided that a nontrivial renormalization group fixed point exists. This adjective describes that type of “safety” and begins the name (-5[1])of a feature of theories that lack Landau poles. A feature whose name begins with this word occurs when the beta function is negative, (10[2])so that the coupling constant decreases with energy, and the force (10[2])increases (10[1])with increasing (10[1])distance. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the strong force exhibits (10[1])a “freedom” named (10[2])for what (10[2])adjective (10[1])that refers (-5[1])to behavior at infinity? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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