A Hint that Dark Energy Enables the Structure of Space

It is suggested that only a small fraction of the vacuum energy predicted by the standard model contributes to the cosmological constant with the remaining portion enabling the structure of space. For demonstration, a ``nearly flat'' spacetime is considered with a vacuum energy that partitions to both the observed cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) and to a much larger fraction ($\Delta\Lambda$) contributing to a Lagrange multiplier field introduced to preserve the relationship between observable spacetime and the metric tensor. Analysis of this Lagrange multiplier field offers a hint that the larger fraction ($\Delta\Lambda$) could in principle be observed in a minimum spatial distance predicted to be $\left({8\pi G\hbar }/{\Delta\Lambda c^3}\right)^{1/4}$ which could have consequences on interpreting experiments that depend on very sensitive spatial measurements.