Do you have any idea - a guestimate, perhaps, of how long it will take for the boffins to sort it all out?

I read the link you gave, and I read ChickPea's link as well. I am (for better or worse) an artist. I think in colours, shapes and patterns. I find reading all that technical stuff really difficult to take in and understand the meaning. I can draw a really complicated tessellation for you without breaking a sweat, but I don't understand the implications of all this technical stuff at all.