River Guidelines

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Most Probable State
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Most Probable State

River in Yellowstone National Park

The condition that balances the laws of minimum
work and even distribution of energy expended,
with minimum variance. A river manifests these
laws of physics through a tendency to evolve
into a particular morphological form ---
the most probable state.