JBinMech 2018 started with the headline: Hurricane Hits Physics [1]. In Sep, 2017, hurricane Maria literally destroyed the Binary Mechanics Lab (BML) building with a six month internet/phone blackout. Meanwhile, a figurative hurricane continued to hit the physics community with BML's first-ever derivation of Planck constant h from first principles in 2015.
More basic physics constants were derived from binary mechanics postulates: proton-electron mass ratio [4], elementary charge e [9] and Planck constant h and intrinsic proton spin, based on the proton bit cycle [12].
A Bit Function Analysis program (BFA) was a major addition to BML software where users could analyze any system state (bit function saved to *.s file) as incidence of 64 "particle states" for each of eight elementary particles [2]. Examples: Particle states evolution could be studied starting with an initial state with random seeding of 1-state bits at a selected bit density [3]. The exact bit function defining each elementary particle could be studied at zero Kelvin, where all 1-state bits representing motion and heat are absent [5].
Analysis of the binary mechanics model of physical space yielded new discoveries of lepton-quark and quark-antiquark energy (1-state bit) fluxes defining three particle motion mechanisms: 1) lepton motion, 2) lepton-mediated proton motion and 3) quark-antiquark proton motion [6]. Recall that physics addresses how things work, and in this case, how things move.
Experiments demonstrated predicted particle motion in magnetic and electric fields [7] [8]. Magnetic pulse injection results suggested 1-state L bits may define "magnetic monopoles", at least under selected conditions.
A binary mechanics FAQ was published [10] highlighting the BML win of the century-old physics grand championship race to derive constants from first principles of a coherent, comprehensive physical theory. Finally, memes for physicists started to appear on BML bulletin boards [11] [13].
