In software circles, you hear a lot about buffer overflows and protecting against them. Depending on what tools you use, protecting the buffer from overflows could be like trying to stamp out ants. It’s funny how some of these structures seem to be replicated in real life. For years now, it seems that my household has a well protected craziness buffer. There’s only room enough for one person to be in the craziness buffer at a time and it is very rarely violated. One day I’ll be the crazy person and my wife the sane one and on other days this will be reversed. But in recent memory, only one person at a time has been able to be crazy. And since our craziness amplitude can be pretty big, I shudder to think what could happen to the fabric of spacetime if the craziness buffer somehow overflowed.
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