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human
Is it true that laws like conservation of mass, energy, and charge are probabilistic laws?

I overheard somebody saying the law of conservation of mass is a probabilistic law (opposed to an absolute law?). Is this true, and if so, what does it mean?
gpt
No, that's not true.

Conservation of mass is a special case of conservation of energy, however, and is violated in nuclear reactions and high speed collisions and stuff like that.

The second law of thermodynamics is a statistical phenomenon. Entropy can locally or temporarily decrease but is unlikely to do so.