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It does repeat stuff which is what triggered me. BICEP2 was a satellite experiment that for a while seemed to have detected an effect predicted by a similar theory advanced by Penrose, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
CCC has been firmly rejected by the author Ethan Siegal. Ironically the title of this article seems to contradict his posted article. There is no actual contradiction though. Siegal rejects CCC and says that cosmic inflation is now the mainstream theory.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-universe-before-big-bang/