http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-tear-apart-the-vacuum-of-space.html


They spent $200,000,000 because they didn't bother reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_creation
When you bombard photons, it creates fermions.