Vacuum Energy State        Zero Point Energy

Local Vacuum energy state can be seen as the collective energy state (structure) which contains the ground state of minimum energy (baseline fluctuations) that is the quantum vacuum, and the excited state of energy (induced fluctuations) generated by matter or any other source of energy in that spacetime locality.

According to quantum field theory, matter, energy, and spacetime are emergent constructs which arise out of a foundational structure, which is the Vacuum energy state.

Matter is confined energy, bound within fields, and may be thought of as a spectrum of different vibrational (and possibly gyrational) frequencies of the Vacuum energy state.

The engineering of the Vacuum metastructure (since there are multiple Vacuum structures) has been discussed from a General Relativity perspective, and from a quantum field theory perspective. We are immersed in an ocean of energy (the Vacuum energy state), yet ordinarily we seem not to interact with it.

 This is because under normal circumstances (at or near equilibrium), the Vacuum state is homogeneous, isotropic, Lorentz invariant, in other words, it is symmetric.

If this symmetry (far-from-equilibrium) is broken and strong interactions with the Vacuum energy state become possible, the manner in which the collective fields exchange energy with one another will be affected.