Complete the paragraph with the correct transitional words. The entire universe we see today was smaller than the size of a pea some 14 billion years ago. At the time, there was no sun, or any of the other stars we see today when we gaze into the night sky. Blank 1, suddenly, this pea-sized universe burst out and grew a trillion times bigger in less than a trillionth of a second. Physicists call this event the Big Bang. But no one has figured out how the Big Bang happened and why. Blank 2, scientists are clueless about what existed before the Big Bang.

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Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.