Out of curiosity, was Robert B. Laughlins (Nobel price for Laughlin wavefunction explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect) on right track and is his work any way relevant to what is currently happening?

The Theory of Everything, R. B. Laughlin and David Pines http://www.pnas.org/content/97/1/28.full

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, R. B. Laughlin https://www.amazon.com/Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physic...

http://large.stanford.edu/publications/