Sucking the breath out of the universe,

Sucking the breath out of the universe,
this is how I imagine it
if the principle of the conservation of energy
were not universal...

All those physicists
struggling to describe
a property of the universe,
the inexplicable acceleration
of its expansion?

Thus they conjured a Mystery Thing
no-one can explain called
"dark energy"...

Like any faulty scientific edifice,
teetering, toppling from assumption
and too many ad-hoc adjustments?

What if instead
we adjusted the initial assumptions,
their very first-principles...

...so what if in the universe
energy was lost irretrievably
and not conserved?

[note- information]

One may only look at nature hereabouts,
and observe, then make some kind of generalization-
there is no closed thermodynamic system
in the universe so...

...so why assume that as a generalization
the conservation of energy
is some real phenomenon,
let alone universal?

So...
...what if energy
was not universally
conserved in nature?

Would the expansion of the universe
appear to be accelerating
were this the case?

26/12/2007