Dark Energy; A New and Bigger Blunder?

Dark energy is posited by some to be the power driving space to expand at an increasing rate. Or perhaps it might be that large clumps of ossified energy (mass) in concentrations of galactic scale are repelling one another and putting more miles between them. In electromagnetism the same charge repels the same and attracts the opposite. If that relationship were changed it might spell the doom of all life rather quickly.

Still one wonders if the issue is about large clumps of mass repelling mass as some sort of dark side partner of the gravitational force, maybe a quirk of power not entangled in the Higgs field or an accounting technicality within that field of boson-quark, graviton relationships. Seriously though I wonder about space itself; could it be that it is always expanding and it just seems to be increasing its pace (apparent rate of change) because of changes of mass in the gravitational field the Universe?

If space were itself to expand at all as a vacuum one would think that would be in its dimensions and in what makes dimensions exist though nothing at all. If space is an apparent phenomenon with mass appearing within it as a hologram with relativistic characteristics then some might explain space as a membrane or several large membranes intersecting one another and themselves drifting about the meta-space at different velocities in relation to one another, or perhaps in-themselves moving at different velocities because of intrinsic properties or because of some initial acceleration by a larger membrane or field structure.

If space is expanding faster would it be some or all of its dimensions increasing? If they increase equally then what is the explanation for that? Wouldn't that tend to neutralize the criteria a membrane context of spatial dimensions?

There are innumerable things to consider regarding hypothetical dark energy, cosmological constants or variables of repulsion or attraction, and meta-space. There is pletiiful potential for discovering a new bigger blunder of physics.