Vacuum energy, gravity and the universe

I have been watching a lot of SciFi shows that depend on the concept of vacuum energy. As I understand it vacuum energy is the theory that even in a vacuum a sea of particles are made from the inherent energy of the universe, before destroying themselves almost instantly. It is the holy grail of the infinite energy people to prove vacuum energy is real.
Since I don’t sleep a lot I was pondering this and this is what I came up with:

First to use VE would require a fundamental change in how we use energy since it is not like you can run a wire to it and plug stuff in. Hell even fusion reactors use the neutron flux, to boil water, to make steam, to turn a turbine, etc (yes we are still in the age of steam.)

Second, ignoring that facts we can’t use VE and have no idea to how to break symmetry to keep some of the particles, it seems kind of dangerous to tap into the inherent energy of the universe and disrupt the matter/energy balance. Which if I recall is kind of important to keeping the laws of physics uniform across the entire region of the universe.

So, I propose it would actually be much safer and simpler to find a way to reverse this reaction and convert matter directly back to energy. It would be necessary to disrupt the strong force and have atoms convert themselves to quarks or other elementary particles which we can use to extract energy or make new matter.


Reaching abit (like I haven’t already) we are the proof that the VE is real, most of the matter was annihilated by antimatter when the universe was young, so if the system is closed the universe must still contain this energy. The matter that is left is simply a bias in symmetry since with all the energy the universe even the tiniest bias to making more matter that antimatter would have over time created vast amounts of matter. Since this a one way trip for the energy we can consider matter as waste or slightly nicer a side product. Gravity is a possible way to reverse the side reaction, since matter constantly emits gravitons the energy must be derived from a matter to energy conversion. Unless gravitons have mass, the universe is getting lighter, as the matter is slowly bleed off as energy. If gravitons do have mass then they must represent a significant amount of the mass in universe. Either way atoms are getting lighter as time goes by since without the input of new energy (from the VE) the lost of mass as gravitons will make them lighter. Assuming that the impact of a graviton on an atom imparts the energy/mass to the atom, the decrease in mass will be reduced but unless the system is 100% some is always lost, and lots is in transit at any one time. In a weird way this explains how gravity works. So without someone showing me proof that gravity works totally differently than I think it does, the universe is getting lighter which does sort of explain how it can seem to accelerate since a=f/m if f is constant and m is decreasing then a increases.

I wonder is gravity the decay of matter at a quantum level?

On the off chance this is some else theory I came up with this last night, in case this is total nonsense, I also remind you I came up with this last night in the wee hours when sense and nonsense blend. So while this might be worthy of the pages of Infinite Energy it is not my life’s work is it hardly a couple of hours of work and hasn’t been checked at all against the fuzzy reality of cosmology.