Three Years of Metaphysical Review
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	With this issue of "Metaphysical Review: Essays on the Foundations of 
Physics" this journal completes its third year of publication.  We now have 
1300 subscribers in 65 countries,  which is a significant increase over the 
800 readers of a year ago.  But we are no longer experiencing the explosive 
exponential growth of our first two years.  This may be in part due to our 
move to a new web-site which did not appear in a number of web indexes for 
several months, or perhaps we are just settling into our niche in the web.  
Still we are growing and more importantly the material submitted to this 
journal continues to increase in quality and volume.
 
	To me one of the most important and most enjoyable aspects of my job 
as editor has been the contact with writers and readers from around the world. 
 I have had the please of encouraging young philosophers and physicist to 
write about those question which are never completely answered in the class 
room.  There have also been questions from writers, journalist, teachers as 
well as philosophers and scientist,  some of which I can field,  but most of 
which I must direst to authors who know the material better then I do.
 
	One problem which continues is that it is very hard to find referees.  
A very few people do a lot of reading for this journal.  If you have time to 
read please contact me about being a referee for us.
 
	This year we have been able to publish a number of longer article with 
extensive references sections ("Julian Schwinger" (November 1996 - No. 4),  
"Mesoscopic and Quantum Brain" (March 1997 - No. 8) and "Pedestrian Notes on 
Quantum Mechanics" (May 1997 - No. 10))  On one hand these articles provide 
extensive reviews and bibliographical resources,  on the other hand they may 
have completely filled a few email mailboxes.  But what has been useful is 
that these resources (and the over three dozen other articles which we have 
published) are all searchable on the web.  In fact we have seen a slow rise in 
the use of this resource.  (http://www.meta.unh.edu/cgi-bin/MetaSearch)  The 
search may appear slow but it really is reading ever line of every issue we 
have ever published to try and find a match,  and it take a little while.
 
	I hope and expect in the fourth year this journal will continue to 
grow.  But more important I am sure we will continue to publish material which 
will keep you up at night wondering how in the world the world works.
 
						Timothy Paul Smith - editor

						Durham, New Hampshire, USA
						June 17, 1997