I think I know why the universe is expanding

Of course, our utter powerlessness and lack of knowledge are still quite stunning. According to Hawking, if the earth were a grain of sand, it would take a bowl of sand 8 miles long to fill the universe.  And now astronomers are positing the existence of dark matter and dark energy to explain phenomena they don't understand.
It is true, though, that in some ways, the "or" appears out of control.  But the "and" may also be operating at a deeper level.
  Consider for a moment the theory of relativity, at least from the standpoint of someone who is not a physicist.  The faster an object, say a spaceship, moves, the slower time travels for people inside that spaceship, relative to the passage of time on earth.   There is an inverse relationship between space covered and time covered.  In this way, space and time and connected.  Speed is what connects the two; visually, it is the vortex at which the two come together.  Speed functions as the "and", and physicists speak of units of space time. During the course of our everyday lives in the Newtonian universe, space  and time are separate entities or measures.  But in the universe of speeding objects, or the universe that physicists now say more accurately describes the reality, the "and" is operative.
   The theory of special relativity establishes a further level of connectivity.   For now we see that gravity affects the space-time fabric.    Massive objects slow down the passage of time.  A hermit living on earth ages at a slower pace than a hermit floating in outer space (assume for the the moment that the latter has an adequate supply of oxygen, food and water to sustain him.)  Like a medicine ball placed upon a mattress, gravity appears to expand space covered, while contracting time covered.   In sum, mass and speed function as the "and".
 So we see these different "ands" that underlie reality.  But can we penetrate deeper?  Is there a pure "and" underlying these "ands"? From which these "ands" derive sustenance?   In which these "ands" participate?
Perhaps there is.  And perhaps it is so deeply entrenched that the "or", to achieve balance with the "and", is pushing galaxies further apart.  For we have said that a healthy individual and a healthy society are  ones whose "or" and "and" are in balance.
Thus, the expansion of the universe may not be such a bad thing.