This is (2013). Christof Wetterich continued research, his current theory is called emergent scale symmetry: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00552 https://arxiv.org/

This is (2013). Christof Wetterich continued research, his current theory is called emergent scale symmetry: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00552 https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00552. It got peer-reviewed and published at Physical Reviews D, the leading journal on cosmology.