#delay [[Thinking in Systems -- A Primer]]: A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes a system likely to oscillate. > This situation of information insufficiency and physical delays is very common. Oscillations like these are frequently encountered in inventories and in many other systems. Try taking a shower sometime where there’s a very long pipe between the hot- and cold-water mixer and the showerhead, and you’ll experience directly the joys of hot and cold oscillations because of a long response delay.