Physical laws do not usually involve probabilities. The better known physical theories are deterministic and defined by differential equations (like the Schröodinger equation), so that a system’s evolution is determined by “initial data”. In a deterministic theory (like Newtonian Mechanics or Maxwell–Lorentz electromagnetism), the physical world simply evolves like clockwork.
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Dürr, D., Teufel, S. (2009). Chance. In: Bohmian Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b99978_4
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