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An important extensive property of all systems in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory, quantifying their disorder (randomness), i.e., our lack of information about them. It characterizes the degree to which the energy of the system is *not* available to do useful work.

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What does the Higgs boson have to do with the uncertainty principle and quantum oscillations?

The "Mexican Hat Potential" (although now more politically correctly called the "Champagne Bottle Potential" after the punt at the base) is the potential energy curve for the vacuum expectation value …
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