6ren: Perhaps the reason that discoveries don't seem to become exponentially rarer is that, in an infinite universe all possible probabilistic outcomes must occ

6ren: Perhaps the reason that discoveries don't seem to become exponentially rarer is that, in an infinite universe all possible probabilistic outcomes must occur. Thus, if there is a non-zero, finite chance of something being discovered it will and can be discovered in an infinite universe. Each new discovery in such a universe will produce non-zero speculative probabilities of something new to discover -- resulting in an infinite stream of problems and solutions that present new problems. It doesn't matter if the probabilities are speculative or eventually discovered to be real: when speculations are "proven" false, the proof of falsehood is itself a new discovery that also provokes further speculation. I guess this would mean that technological progress is inevitable given an infinite universe where some technological progress has already occurred and where speculation or "imagination" or unguided thought exist.