No, they could not have, because Quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) are generally thought to be newly forming galaxies composed of huge quantities of "pre-stellar" matter surrounding a massive black hole. The Big Bang is described as the "origin of everything" as we see it in the universe. All matter and (so much more importantly!) all of space and time did not exist, and the Big Bang is the initiating act that produced all the energy and all the matter in the universe. According to the theory, we are not sure what existed before it happened. Current string theories predict an eleven dimensional space where part of it collapsed into four dimensions. And, when this collapse happened our universe was created. The Big Bang actually, according to the theory, only lasted about a trillion-trillionth of a second before it was large enough to produce Quasars.
Most scientists believe that an infinite dense singularity existed before the incident known as the Big Bang.
We have no idea what, if anything, existed before the Big Bang, or even if the concept of "before" has any meaning in this context.
Not the existence of quasars, but the fact that all quasars are distant from us. The best explanation for what we observe when we see quasars is that they are super-massive black holes in early galaxies, burning up solar "fuel" so rapidly that they eventually run out. We do not observe any quasars near to us, so the conditions that allowed quasars to form must have existed only several billion years ago. If our Universe has not changed its basic structure and density over the last 15 billion years or so, then the conditions that would allow quasars would allow them to exist at any time over that span. This would mean that there should be just as many quasars close to us as there are far from us. But we just don't see that. As is the case with many of the things we see, this is easy to explain via Big Bang Cosmology but almost impossible to explain with any alternative.
It is not known what happened before; perhaps there wasn't a "before". That is, time itself may have started with the Big Bang.
# Cosmic background radiation (remnants of the Big Bang). # Quasars.
This is a highly unlikely assumption and it could be answered with 'no'. In the best of our knowledge, nothing existed before the Big Bang ocured, except for the theoretical singularity that is supposed to be the origin of the Big Bang. Many theories have sprung up regarding the origin and cause of the Big Bang but no concrete evidence has been found or valid forward for any of these theories.
The writer may be referring to the theory that black holes could spawn new universes (Smolin's Fecund universe). This is highly theoretical is a along way from being proven.
Electricity was not invented, it has existed since the first instant of the Big Bang (if not before).
I believe most scientists would agree that this is not currently known. Some, however, would say that there was no "before" - that time itself started with the Big Bang.
This is not known at this time.
Both space and time were created by the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. Before the Big Bang, there was no space or time. Now we have space and time, and we call the fabric in which the universe exists spacetime.
Events in the Universe are often dated from the Big Bang. But the fact is, NOBODY KNOWS what (if anything) happened before the Big Bang. The Big Bang MAY have been the start of time itself; but it is possible that the Universe existed (in some form) forever in the past.