I’ve always been fascinated by fractals, especially the Sierpinski gasket, shown at right, and in a beautiful pyramidal arrangement in the background of this spread. To make such a gasket, all you do is remove the interior of the middle equilateral triangle (the upside down one) over and over again, at successively smaller and smaller scales. What results is something that is more than one dimensional, but less than two dimensional—in fact, it can be shown to have dimension D, where D is given by the relation 2D=3, or D ≈ 1.585…. In this issue of TPT, we feature on page 410 a paper by Charles Creffield, “Fractals on a Benchtop: Observing Fractal Dimension in a Resistor Network,” where he details how his students set up resistors in a similar network and mimic fractal resistance effects … doubly fascinating! I wanted to share this imagery with you in appreciation of the hundreds of generous, smart, and gracious individuals who serve as TPT referees. When I look over this list of names, I see many of the people I admire most in the world, and it makes me optimistic in a way that few things can these days. If you see someone you know in this list, please find a way to express your thanks for all they do for TPT and for physics teachers and students everywhere. When I imagine all the connections between the people on this list, it calls to my mind all of the connections between the dark regions in the figure at right—a Sierpinski gasket of physicists, held together by their common ideas. What could be more fun to think about!? Thank you, again, dear referees; you are the glue that holds this community together, in my view.

I’ve always been fascinated by fractals, especially the Sierpinski gasket, shown at right, and in a beautiful pyramidal arrangement in the background of this spread. To make such a gasket, all you do is remove the interior of the middle equilateral triangle (the upside down one) over and over again, at successively smaller and smaller scales. What results is something that is more than one dimensional, but less than two dimensional—in fact, it can be shown to have dimension D, where D is given by the relation 2D=3, or D ≈ 1.585…. In this issue of TPT, we feature on page 410 a paper by Charles Creffield, “Fractals on a Benchtop: Observing Fractal Dimension in a Resistor Network,” where he details how his students set up resistors in a similar network and mimic fractal resistance effects … doubly fascinating! I wanted to share this imagery with you in appreciation of the hundreds of generous, smart, and gracious individuals who serve as TPT referees. When I look over this list of names, I see many of the people I admire most in the world, and it makes me optimistic in a way that few things can these days. If you see someone you know in this list, please find a way to express your thanks for all they do for TPT and for physics teachers and students everywhere. When I imagine all the connections between the people on this list, it calls to my mind all of the connections between the dark regions in the figure at right—a Sierpinski gasket of physicists, held together by their common ideas. What could be more fun to think about!? Thank you, again, dear referees; you are the glue that holds this community together, in my view.

  • David S. Abbott

  • Paulo H. Acioli

  • Andrei Afanasev

  • Adel Alameh

  • Bradley Allen

  • Joseph C. Amato

  • Bradley Ambrose

  • Barbara Andereck

  • Eric Anderson

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  • Andrés Aragoneses

  • Seth Ashman

  • Timothy James Atherton

  • Leslie Atkins Elliott

  • Robert Andreas Austin

  • Eric Ayars

  • Shahrul Kadri Ayop

  • Antonio Badia-Majos

  • Janelle M. Bailey

  • William H. Baird

  • Blane Baker

  • Jorge Luis Ballester

  • Richard P. Barber

  • Mauricio Barbi

  • Bree Barnett Dreyfuss

  • Regina Barrier

  • Igor Barsukov

  • William Bassichis

  • Alan Bates

  • Sebastian Becker

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  • Joanna Behrman

  • Fred Behroozi

  • Michael Scott Bell

  • Keith Bellof

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  • Jonathan Bennett

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  • Sean J. Bentley

  • Rhoda Berenson

  • Calvin Berggren

  • Keith Berland

  • Oscar Bertran

  • Ugo Besson

  • Shayak Bhattacharjee

  • Gábor Bihari

  • Philippe M. Binder

  • Steven Binz

  • Ignacio Birriel

  • Jennifer J. Birriel

  • David Bittel

  • Philip Rodriguez Blanco

  • Jake Stanley Bobowski

  • Abigail Bogdan

  • Roeland Boot

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  • Echeverry

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  • Jonathan Bougie

  • Forrest R. Bradbury

  • Michael Braunstein

  • Bob Brazzle

  • Michael S. Briggs

  • Christine Caragianis Broadbridge

  • Joel Bryan

  • Louis Buchholtz

  • Mark Buesing

  • Andy Buffler

  • James Buick

  • John B. Buncher

  • Alex Burant

  • Juan R. Burciaga

  • Jan-Philipp Burde

  • Adam Burgasser

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  • Teresa Burns

  • Andrea Bussani

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  • Tony Calamai

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  • Giovanni Casini

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  • Tom Concannon

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  • Christian Corrao

  • Ivan F. Costa

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  • Charles Creffield

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