Considering a new animation to depict Van Der Walls summing into Casimir force. I got some insight from Models paper and comments from
Other more experienced Vorticians regarding what happens in the nearfield as gas atoms approach the walls in a Casimir cavity. I think I can model this by Choosing a dozen or so closely spaced points on the wall of the cavity where the Van der Waals forces can be shown as vectors stemming out like peacock feathers which quickly start to sum beyond a certain focal point but actually detract all the way down to direct opposition as you approach the plane of the wall where the vectors become cross eyed. Any gas atoms approaching closer than the focal points should start feeling a gradient reduction in Casimir force. I also think the Casimir restriction of longer vacuum flux inside the cavity effects the way these fields sum from our perspective – where everything outside a cavity is isotropic and we normally only consider 3d summation of fields there are papers suggesting an abrupt break in this symmetry by Casimir plates. My summing vectors may need to incorporate a diffraction gradient (or maybe 137 step functions) because they are propagating at different rates which become more pronounced inverse to the distance ^3 between the walls of the cavity. Searching on Casimir effect and Vander Waals there are some recent articles suggesting a relationship but I didn’t find anything conclusive. My premise is that VDW normally dissipate except in conductive lattices where they overlap allowing plate geometries to favor a specific axis that accumulates them into the larger effect we call Casimir force. Regards Fran
