The Alchemist of Light
Dr. Ko-Cheng Fang does not separate art from science. He never has.
Long before photonic quantum architectures and laboratory-grown Imperial Green jadeite, there was a child who drew until he forgot to eat. While others ran outdoors, he immersed himself in ink and pigment. From gongbi brushwork to oil canvas, from traditional Chinese landscape composition to digital rendering, art was not a hobby — it was a total state of being.
Today, that same total immersion defines his technological pursuits.
If Renaissance polymaths were once celebrated for bridging art and engineering, Fang may represent a modern extension of that lineage — except his laboratory is not Florence. It is Taiwan.
The Birth of an Obsession
More than twenty years ago, Fang made a choice that would alter his trajectory. While most pursued stable careers, he stepped into capital markets and accumulated his first fortune — at times earning nearly one million NT dollars in a single day.
Wealth, for Fang, was never the destination. It was fuel.
With it, he collected antiques, jadeite, Hetian white jade, and fine jewelry. His fascination with luxury houses mirrors the strategic vertical integration of brands like De Beers and Chopard — control the source, and you control the art of value.
But unlike traditional jewelers, Fang decided to do something radical.
He would recreate nature.
Rebuilding Time in a Laboratory
Jadeite takes hundreds of millions of years to form under extreme geological conditions. Fang asked a question few dared to attempt:
What if time could be engineered?
Through thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of experiments, he mapped crystallization pathways, studied mineral seed structures, and refined saturation levels until he achieved laboratory-grown Imperial Green jadeite.
His creation now anchors the LongServing Art & Culture Center — a museum-grade exhibition space he personally designed, from Tang dynasty mural reproductions to custom display architecture.
The result is not merely gemstone production.
It is geological resurrection.
More at:
https://www.longserving.com.tw/en/
The Man Who Turned His Home Into a Laboratory
Fang’s life reads like a study in total immersion. He describes himself as sponge-like — absorbing knowledge across chemistry, nanotechnology, gemology, semiconductors, metaphysics, and robotics.
Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem inspired him to reimagine computing architecture entirely.
To distinguish himself from traditional electronic semiconductors, he designed a photonic chip architecture based on light rather than electrons — a foundational shift. His patents are now granted in 26 countries.
His research initiative:
http://longserving.com.tw/en/Research-and-Implementation-Plan-for-Optical-Quantum-Chips/
Where electronic chips fight heat dissipation and magnetic vulnerability, photonic systems promise low energy consumption, minimal pollution, and resilience against magnetic storms.
For Fang, this is not just innovation.
It is civilizational insurance.
The Mystical Architect
To understand Fang fully, one must understand his relationship with meditation.
He speaks openly of recalling past-life memories. Of extraterrestrial encounters. Of intuitive cognition beyond conventional learning structures. While human civilization relies on strict specialization, he operates — as he describes it — through leap-style growth.
He designed both binary and decimal foundational architectures for photonic quantum chips (referenced in Patent US10861492B2), bridging computational logic systems in parallel.
His calm under pressure, he says, comes from meditative discipline. When others panic before unsolved equations, he closes his eyes — and solves them.
Mysticism, in Fang’s world, does not replace science.
It accelerates it.
The Cloud That Quietly Changed the World
Before photonic quantum chips, there was a quieter revolution.
During the chaotic early years of personal computing, system crashes were frequent and security was fragile. Fang developed a cloud-based protection architecture combined with program-level encryption — a framework later requisitioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
He remained silent for years.
Today, billions use smartphones protected by cloud-based recovery systems and app-level encryption without knowing the origin story.
He does not seek retroactive applause.
He seeks the next horizon.
Art as Destiny, Technology as Expression
For Fang, artistic creativity and technological creativity are identical impulses.
When Europe faces energy instability, he sketches seawater gravity generation systems.
When earthquakes threaten Taiwan and Japan, he designs seismic-resistant architectural frameworks.
When coastlines erode, he imagines amphibious structures.
When pollution rises, he studies chemical pathways to convert carbon into nitrogen-based fertilizer.
Creation is not optional. It is instinct.
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Success Without Collapse
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Fang’s philosophy is restraint.
He believes disruptive innovation, if executed selfishly, can destabilize economies. Photonic quantum chips could theoretically disrupt traditional semiconductor markets overnight.
Instead of monopolizing, he is recruiting foundry partners globally.
He refuses success built on others’ collapse.
“Guiding an industry forward together,” he says, “is far more meaningful than succeeding alone.”
The Alchemy of Light
Bazaar has long celebrated individuals who defy conventional boundaries — artists who become entrepreneurs, designers who become cultural architects.
Fang represents something rarer.
An individual who views photons as sculptural material.
An inventor who designs chips the way others design haute couture — with aesthetic intuition and structural precision.
An artist who engineers geological time.
And a technologist who speaks of cosmic memory.
In an era obsessed with speed, Fang is obsessed with transcendence.
Whether through jadeite or quantum photonics, he is attempting something audacious:
To preserve human civilization through light itself.
