"University at Buffalo researchers say a newly suggested bouncing universe recipe that attempts to deal with the problem of entropy — the measure of unusable energy in the universe, which can only increase — suffers from a problem that has plagued previous models of endless inflation and contraction. It still needs a beginning."
The original article is available here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1 ... 022/06/011
The flawed cyclical universe model assumes a kind of teleology - a universe designed to expand and contract forever.