Scroll to the end of his blog entry. There Terry Tao gives an addendum explaining in layman's terms the meaning of their work: "ADDED LATER: the following anal

Scroll to the end of his blog entry. There Terry Tao gives an addendum explaining in layman's terms the meaning of their work: "ADDED LATER: the following analogy (involving functions with just two zeroes, rather than an infinite number of zeroes) may help clarify the relation between this result and the Riemann hypothesis (and in particular why this result does not make the Riemann hypothesis any easier to prove, in fact it confirms the delicate nature of that hypothesis). ..." Probably should have been placed at the beginning of the blog for the main content is certainly intimidating.