it would be like if the earth was to grow bigger and bigger, the distances between each countries would be larger.

Well, the expanding earth theory shows a lot more consistency with our observations of the earth's crust than does plate tectonics.

When are these guys going to give up on patching a hole in a sunk ship, and give up on dark energy and dark matter.

A galaxy sized push-pull force explains things a lot better.
And then brings the count of forces to 6.

Time and space are constructs that are several layers down in our universe construct. Meaning you can pretty easily get out of space and time without leaving the universe.

They don't exist outside our universe at all.
Like trying to find a 12" ruler in Europe. :-p

What is beyond our universe?
Well, if you shrunk our universe-set down to a little bubble then our universe is one of many bubbles, like sea foam floating on a quick-silver ocean that is God's energy.