Context· moderateCCC-E014
CCC stated in 2006, before any circle search: the priority record
- what the source states
- The 2006 proceedings paper presents CCC in full outline: "With conformal invariance both in the remote future and at the Big-Bang origin, we can try to argue that the two situations are physically identical, so the remote future of one phase of the universe becomes the Big Bang of the next."
- what we infer
- Establishes that the theory precedes the data claims by four years — the circles were presented in 2010 as predictions of an existing framework, not a pattern found first and theorized after. This matters for fairness: whatever the statistics of the searches, CCC is not a just-so story fitted to known anomalies. The specific quantitative signatures, however, were never specified in advance (CCC-C011).
- limitations
- Priority of the framework is not priority of the specific statistical signatures; ring abundance, amplitude, and profile were not predicted in 2006.