How Does the Casimir Force Relate to the Expansion of the Universe?

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This is just a short question, it might have been asked already but I couldn't find anything.
I read that we have attempted to reconcile the Casimir force with the observed expansion of the universe, doing this, we get a number 10^120 times too big. This is obviously a bad number to say the least. So why doesn't the Casimir force have an effect on expansion? Are there any theories that can delete that... bad number.
 
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