It takes work to separate two masses from each other (increasing gravitational potential energy). The universe is not just expanding, which might possibly be understood in an energy conserving way if the rate of expansion is slowing, but it is expanding at an ever increasing rate. Ergo enter guy is being dumped into the universe from some repository/field/whatever that we don’t understand. That’s what Dark Energy is.
This does not compute in my mind, energy transfer (in some form) it is observed phenomena (my understanding (primitive) of time is energy transfer), even on quantum level we can measure it, what am I missing ?