Geometrodynamics: Research Status & Wheeler's Text

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Has Geometrodynamics been essentially abandoned as a theory or does some (credible) research still thrive? I ask this because I came across a copy of Wheeler's Geometrodynamics text, which was published in the 1960s.
 
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Thread 'Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field'

Thread 'Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field'

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