Full Idea
The fundamental laws of nature appear to be laws of temporal evolution: they specify how the state of the universe will, or might, evolve from a given intial state.
Gist of Idea
Fundamental laws say how nature will, or might, evolve from some initial state
Source
Tim Maudlin (The Metaphysics within Physics [2007], 6)
Book Reference
Maudlin,Tim: 'The Metaphysics within Physics' [OUP 2007], p.172
A Reaction
Maudlin takes both laws of nature and the passage of time to be primitive facts, and this is how they are connected. I think (this week) that I take time and causation to be primitive, but not laws.