Dark Energy stunts galaxies growth

A recent report on the Science News website suggest that the strength of the dark energy field might be constant.

I wonder however if it is possible that the non-gravitational aspects of space time that influence the rate of universe expansion have multiple components. What appears to be a relatively constant dark energy or cosmological constant value may be a coincidence of two or more causal agents. The apparent increase in the rate of expansion may be due to the fact that two or more variables effecting the non-gravitational kinematics components of space time expansion are roughly currently in balance such that their net effects appear as a constant dark energy strength value.

As time progresses over cosmic time frames, perhaps one or more of any components of a composite non-gravitational space time expansion mechanism will dominate perhaps leading to either: a big rip, a constant rate of expansion at distant future cosmic epochs, a decrease in the rate of cosmic expansion but nevertheless in an open universe, a marginally open universe whose expansion rate goes to zero at infinite time durations, a closed universe that will eventually collapse, or perhaps a closed universe the will collapse and back on itself and be reborn in an finite number of or an infinite number of rebirths and collapses, in other words, a cyclical big bang universe.

If nature has fundamentally designed a cyclical universe, perhaps each cycle varies with time, has the same temporal duration, and/or increases with time as some models involving the conservation of thermodynamic information from one bounce to the following bounce would suggest.

Just as the four known forces may have some sort of relation in unified field theory schemes, thus effectively giving unified fields such a super-gravity sub-components (for lack of a better word), perhaps dark energy has multiple components which may branch off from each other and become seperated in a manner similar or analogous to the symmetry breaking events that lead to the multi-stepwise seperation of the unified field into the four seperate forces we know of currently.

Other mechanisms may dwarf the effects of dark energy whether or not the strength of dark energy varies with time or whether or not dark energy has sub-components. For instance, phase changes leading to futher bifurcation of any or all of the 4 known forces might occur leading to one or more episodes of inflation, or the production of exotic particles and forces that have never existed before, but which nonetheless, could result in a volumetrically large to huge increase in the real mattergy content of our universe, at which point, the attractive force of gravity may once again dominate the rate of universe expansion.