God created me, and pulled out two ribs from me. I seem to have the same number of ribs in both sides.

Garden of Eden

A new interpretation

As you can see, God created me. I appeared very lonely to Him. He thus created two women to make me happy. I seem to have the same number of ribs on both sides. God then told me to obey some simple rules. If I obey Him, the entire world is my Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden is an abstract concept. Here is one of the paintings of the Garden in the Vatican Museum. You would agree that this is an out-dated representation of this abstract concept.
Richard Feynman was a great physicist. He was also an accomplished artist. Let us look at some of his paintings and drawings from http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=380. Like many artists, he used one woman in each frame to express his imagination. In so doing, he is telling us God created one woman for him. Many people thought like Feynman before the Old Testament was written in the 6th Century BC.

This webpage is based on my old photos. I thought I could construct a concept of the Garden of Eden using internet technology. If you have comments and/or suggestions, you can e-mail me.

Two Russian Sisters. When I was attending a conference at the Volga beach near Kazan in 2000, they always stayed close to me. I asked them why they like a man as old as their grandfather. They said I am like their elder brother. They knew what I like to hear. They seem to be interested in how I made out in the United States after coming from Korea when I was as young as they are now.
1. Two Russian Ladies in Athens (July 2008). I could tell they came from Russia, and they became very happy when I started talking about their country. They came from Moscow.
2. River Cruise. With two students on a cruise ship along the Volga River. The Russian flag is in the background (2001).
3. Two Sisters from Tashkent. Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbeckistan, which used to be one of the Soviet Republics in the past. There are many people from Tashkent throughout Russia. This frame contains two photos taken in Kazan (1999).
4. Russian Lady from Omsk. I met her on the Cote d'Azur beach. It was the first time to meet, but this Russian lady behaved as if he she were with her brother. This photo was taken by her embarrassed daughter. It was not the first time for me to have this kind of experience with Russian ladies. This prompted me to do a research along this line, and I constructed a theory of why. Click here for the result of my research.
5. Two Sweet Girls. While in Kharkov (July 2000), I invited these two girls to a photo with my colleague. They were just walking by. In November of 2001, they came to me while I was attending the Akhiezer memorial conference held in Kharkov. It was a total surprise to me. They asked me whether I brought their photos. I apologized to them and promised to put the pictures on my website, and I invited them to join me in the conference banquet. However, my proposal was rejected by the conference organizers. Their reasoning was that these girls are too young. We were thoroughly disappointed. They wanted to spend more time with me. I now have their addresses and will make every effort to heal their wounds.
  
  After I had a photo with mother and daughter, the daughter pushed away her mom. She wanted to have a photo with me alone.
6. A Beautiful Set of Mother and Daughter. I walked into Kazan's town hall to see what was happening there. There was a wedding reception, and many teenager boys and girls came in their formal dresses. I spotted there a mother with he teenager daughter, and asked them whether I can have a photo with them.
  1. Photo without Mom. Then the girl pushed away her mother, and wanted to have a photo with me alone. Her mother happliy stayed away. Beautiful people with beautiful hearts.
  2. This is Kazan's Town Hall.
7. I spotted these two girls in the lobby of Kazan's concert hall. They agreed to be photographed, and then invited me to have a photo together.
  1. My photo with them. How do I look.
  2. Kazan's Concert Hall. Everywhere in Russia, Russians believe in music.
8. Lydia Arndt also works for Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. She is a very quiet person, and she comes with her daughter at social gatherings. This photo was taken in Dubna (2000).
  1. Two years later, we met again in Prague (2002). Again she was with her daughter, who became taller.
9. Two Medical Doctors from Dnepropetrovsk staying at the President Hotel Kievsky in Kiev (2006). They appeared to have beautiful minds. I asked them whether I could photograph them. They invited me to sit down with them, and I had a photo with them. There are many medical doctors in my family. In order to be a successful doctor, he/she must have a beautiful mind and must always be ready to help others.
10. Mother and Daughter from Khabarovsk. Khabarovsk is a Russian city at the eastern end of Siberia, north of the Korean Peninsula. I met these two ladies in the Church of Resurrection in Saint Petersburg (November 2010). While I was in Korea until 1954, I used to pick up Radio Moscow shortwave signals relayed at powerful shortwave stations in Khabarovsk, but I had never expected to meet anyone from Khabarovsk.
11. Two more Russian Ladies from Khavarovsk at one of the Brazilian restaurents in Rio (2011).
12. Two Russian Gardeners in Kaliningrad (2005). Do you know where Kaliningrad is? Click here.
13. Airline Ladies on the S7 Siberian Ailines. This photo was taken at the Kazan Airport at the end of a flight from Moscow. It takes one and half hours from Moscow to Kazan.
14. Two Russian Ladies from Murmansk. The city of Murmansk is at the harlfway between Moscow and the North Pole. I met them at one of the samba theaters in Rio.
15. with two Russian Ladies on the Copacabana Bearch in Rio (2011). They came from Moscow.
16. Two Russian Friends in Shanghai (July 2011). They came from Moscow and are working at the Wyndham Hotel located at the East Bunt Region of Shanghai for practical training. They came from Moscow, and they are mighty proud of their city.
17. Two Physicists from Saint Petersburg. This photo was produced in Minsk (Belarus 2004).
18. Italian and Russian Physicists. In 2002, we had a photo with an Italian physicist from Sicily in Minsk
19. Two years later, we produced the second edition of this photo again in Minsk.
20. In 2010, I was in Paris and enjoying a dinner at Les Cafe Deus Magots. I met there some interesting people. The lady on my right is my wife. The young lady on my left came from Moscow. She became very happy when I asked her whether she came from Yasanevo. She indeed came from there. Yasanevo is a jungle of high-rise condo buildings south of Moscow.
Two Mona Lisas in Milan. Look at their smiles. Their smiles are real, unlike the smile of Leonardo da Vinci's imaginary lady. This photo was produced on the street called "via Montenapoleone" in Milan (July 5, 2002). This district of Milan is known as the fashion capital of the world. Here is a close-up view. These ladies look better without me.
1. Two Italians in Milan (2002). was taken in Nice (France 2006).
2. Italians in Rome. There are many Italian ladies in Rome. This photo was taken at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome. There are two ladies sitting, and another enviously looking at us. This photo was taken by my wife while we were vacationing in Italy (June 2000). Certainly God created me and then Italian women.
3. Green Power Advocates at the Termini (main railroad station, 2010).
4. Graduate Students in Physics.
5. Italian Students at the Cafe Ponte Milvio (November 2010).
6. Italian Sisters. I spotted these two look-alike Italian ladies at a Verona park. I asked them whether they are twins. They said No, but they said they are sisters. I then asked who is older. They did not answer but asked me to sit down with them, and we had
7. I am in this photo. I am very happy to be with them.
8. Munich (2004). Open-hearted ladies from Trieste at the Hofbrau-Haus in Munich.
9. Italian Students in Milan. I like students and they like me wherever I go. Milan cannot be an exception (2002).
10. Italian Ladies at Florence's restaurant Il Latini (2004). It is not easy to meet Italians in the city of Florence.
11. Naples. In a classy restaurant called "Reginella" in Naples (January 1998). Very cheerful Italian ladies. They think I am a funny man.
12. Two physiciists in Salerno (2005).
13. Two students on a train from Naples to Caserta (March 2005).
14. Alesandra Gatti is an outstanding Italian physicists, and I meet her often. I also have many photos with her, but I need an additional lady to look happier in the photo. This photo was produced in Iguassu Falls (Brazil 2011).
15. Alesandra and Olga Man'ko. With Italian and Russian ladies in Boston (2001). All three in this photo are distinguished physicists, and they know how to express themselves.
16. Galileo's House in Padova. I am with one Italian lady (sun glasses) and he friend from England.
17. Two Ladies in Palermo. How do I meet them? We just met at the city park and I proposed a photo (2010).
18. Another Set of Palermo Ladies while waiting in the check-in line at the Palermo Airport (2010).
19. Two Physicists from Palermo in Puebla (Mexico 2001).
20. Italian and Russian Physicists. They came from Sicily (real Italy) and St. Petersburg (real Russia) respectively. Can you tell which lady is Italian, or Russian? Photo taken in Minsk (May 2002).
21. Second Edition Photo taken in Minsk (May 2004).
Brazilian Mother and Daughter at Rio's Copacavana Beach (2000). I am enjoying a coconut drink not available in the United States.
1. Two Brazilian Ladies at the top of the Jesus mountain in Rio de Janeiro (2011).
2. One Brazilian Lady and my Wife at the top of the Sugarload Mountain in Rio.
3. Two Interior Decorators in Iguassu Falls. They were working on a Japanese room at the Mabu Thermas Resort Hotel.
4. Two Flower Artists working for the Mabu Thermas Hotel in Iguassu Falls.
5. Two Brazilian Students on a bus from the Sao Paulo airport to the city (2011).
6. Two Receptionists at the Royal Boutique Hotel in Sao Paulo (2011).
7. Two Brazilian Friends I met at one of London's subway stations (2009).
8. Brazilian Ladies in front of New York's Metropolotian Museum of Art (2002)
9. Two Brazilian Ladies in Buenos Aires (2011).
10. Brazilian Sisters in Athens (July 2008). This photo led me to think God created two women for me.
French Police ladies in Marseille (July 2008).
1. Lalique. French ladies working at the Lalique headquarters store in Paris (July 2002). I bought an item at this store. They were very happy to have a photo with me.
2. French Chemists at St. Peter's Square in Rome (June 2000).
3. French students in Geneva. They came from Nice, the city of artists in France (May 2003). They are studying commercial arts.
4. Two AirFrance ladies, during a flight from Paris to Washington (2004.11.25)
5. AF flight from Washington to Paris (July 2008).
6. Sheraton Stockholm (June 1010) ready to fly back to Paris.
  - They seem to look better without me.
New Opera Dress Code. During the intermission in the Frankfurt Opera House, I noticed many black-tied gentlemen, and ladies were also formally dressed. There were some informally dressed like myself, and I was looking for the ladies with appropriately dressed. I found them and we agreed that we are more in tune with the real world. There are two ladies in this photo. One of them lives in Frankfurt, and the other is from Vienna. Both of them are opera lovers (2001).
1. Two German ladies at the Semper Opera House in Dresden (2004). They have coffee/wine break outside the building.
Two Polish Students at Crakow's Market Square (2002).
1. Two Polish Students in Warsaw (2003).
2. Two Polish Ladies at Gdansk's Solidarity Square (2010).
Everybody is my friend in Budapest. I have been to Budapest many times, and I feel quite home there. Everybody in Budapest is my friend. I have a theory of why I am so close to Hungarians, but let us look at photos first.
1. Two Hungarian Shop Keepers taking a cigarette break in Budapest (2003).
2. Two Hungarian students. In preparation for the Wigner Centennial, I went to Pecs in April of 2000. It was a rainy day, but the students were kind enough to take turns (or compete) to provide umbrella cover for me. Very kind ladies, indeed.
3. In 2002, the Wigner Centennial Conference was held in Pecs. I had a photo with these two students who worked for the conference with dedication. They made every participant happy.
4. Two Hungarian ladies at a Budapest subway station (2008).
5. Malev Hungarian Airlines, during a flight from Milan to Budapest (July 13, 2002). This is a major route between the Western world and Eastern European and Former Soviet territories. I go to Hungary often on Malev flights.
Two Austrian Ladies I met in Pecs, Hungary (2002). They were travelling around Europe to learn new things and to meet new people. They became very happy when I talked about their city as the music capital of the world. They came from Vienna.
Japanese Students I met at the British Museum (London 2009).
1. Japanese ladies in Milan. I shared a dinner table with these Japanese ladies at an Italian restaurant in Milan (November 2003). They are mother and daughter. The mother studied American literature, and the daughter is studying business. Where is the father? He is a prominent lawyer in Japan and is very busy.
2. Japanese Mother and Daughter in Rome (2010).
Mongolian Ladies. Mongolians are ethnically different from Chinese, as Koreans are. I met these ladies at the Chatley metro interchange in Paris. This photo shows that Koreans came to Korea from Mongolia some years ago. These ladies knew that I am a Korean from my appearance. We exchanged pleasant talks until their metro train came (July 2000).
Two Chinese Actresses in Santorini (Greece 2010). They came from Beijing, and I had a photo with them.
1. Chinese Scientists in Vienna. I met these ladies in Vienna's Musikverein (2007). They both studied at Beijing's Tsinghwa University. One of them is working in Sinkiang Province (west) and the other is working in Gwangjou Province (south). As China becomes richer, I see an increasing number of Chinese in music halls of Europe. I expect to see more in the coming years.
2. Two Chinese Ladies in St. Petersburg (Russia 2004). They were spending their vacation week in Russia. I went there for attending a conference. Very cheerful ladies. They even sent me an e-mail from Hong Kong.
3. From Xinkiang. These ladies came from China's Xinkiang province, the far-western province which borders with Kazakhstan. We do not meet the people from this area too often, but they were like neighbors when I was talking to them (Minsk, May 2002). Very kind ladies!
4. Chinese Students at the Amsterdam Airport (2003). Chinese students are everywhere in the world.
In Canton, they still speak the original Tang Chinese, while the Chinese language got mixed up in the north dues to repeated barbarian invasions. Koreans still maintain the Tang pronunciation, because they imported Tang poems and bulk of Chinese culture during the Tang dynasty (600 -- 900 AD).
1. In this photo, I am closer to the Beijing lady, because Korea is closer to Beijing geographically, and the Canton lady got turned off.
2. I then moved closer to the Canton lady, because we speak in the same way. She became very happy.
In Beijing (1995). Chinese ladies shy to pose with a strange man, but feel secure with police officers. Things were different when I I was there in 2011.
1. Two Tour Guides during their off-duty hours. They wanted to practice their English near the Tian Anmin Square (2011).
2. Two Restauranr Receptionists at the Beijing Hotel. They were so persuasive that I had to go into the restaurant and order expensive items.
3. Two Students at Peking University. We had this photo earlier, but these girls pushed away their male classmate. In the background is the main library of the University. Chairman Mao Zedong once worked in this libray's old building.
4. Two Chinese Financial Engineers working for a petrolium company bringing oil from the northwestern region of China. One of these ladies studied in England. This photo was taken in the lobby of the Beijing International Hotel (2011). I stayed in this hotel in 1995. In 2011, I was surprised to see so many young capitalists in the lobby of this hotel.
5. Chinese Mother and Daughter at the National Library. They do not live in Beijing, but this 13-year-old daugther spend summer months in Beijing to study English. While her mother was not able to speak, the daughter was able to communicate fluently. The mother was somewhat lost, but was very proud of her daughter. I was very happy.
Australian Sisters. I met these Australian sisters at a restaurants on the Vorosmarty Square (2003). One of them is working in London, and the other came from Sydney to visit her sister.
Two Latvian Professionals in Cannes (France 2006). One of them (right) is an IT engineer and the other is a fashion designer. Very smart ladies! I enjoyed talking with them, and we promised to meet again preferably in the United States.
Indian Sisters on a cruise boat in Miami (January 2004). They are both computer professionals. The younger sister (next to me) lives in Miami, and the elder sister came to Miami from Mumbai to visit her younger sister.
Spanish Ladies in London. This photo was produced at one of the Mark & Spencer department stores. I met them the day before in one of the restaurants. We were very happy to meet again.
Spanish Students at London's Kensington Parks (2010).
Prom. Indeed, high school graduation is important to those Swedish girls. After their prom party, they were walking along Vaxjo's main shopping street (2006).
1. Before the Prom Party, these young prommers were walking on the street in their prom dresses. They were looking like dolls (2006).
  I had a photo with them.
2. Celebration. Here is another form of celebration: parade on streets and free roaming (2002).
3. Another form of Freedom.
4. Beer and Cigarette. I was fortunate to have a photo with them.
Czech and Slovakia in a London subway train (September 2008).
1. Czech Airlines in New York (2008).
Marilyn Monroe was standing here for her 1955 movie "Seven Year Itch."
Croatian ladies on Mariyln Monroe's subway grates (2009). Monro was at this spot when her 1955 movie was shot. The title of this movie is "Seven Year itch."
1. Croatian Mother and Daughter at New York's Solomon Guggenheim Museum (2007). They came from Dvornik and invited me to visit them when I come to the Balkan area.
with South African Ladies, while waiting for a flight to Copenhagen at the Frankfurt Airport (June 2002).
Two Malaysian Engineers in Shanghai. We were attending the same conference (2011).
Card Vender and her Daughter in Ankara (January 2005). I bought five post cards from her. She is very happy not because she made money, but because her daughter's math grade became improved. Three Turkish men are laughing because this lady is having a photo with a strange man, and were threatening to tell her husband about this abnormal incident.
1. Moon Light, with one Turkish professor and one Spanish professor (Naples 1999).
2. Turkish ladies of Armenian Origin. There are many Armenians in Turkey. They are Turkish citizens, but they are Christians. This photo was taken on a ferry boat in Istanbul (August 1999).
3. Turkish Sisters at a Ritz-Carlton Hotel near Washington DC, USA (February 2005). We were having a Sunday brunch at the hotel's restaurant. There are many well-to-do Turkish immigrants in the United States.
Navy.The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis an college producing top-class scientists. These scientists serve in the U.S. Navy. Jimmy Carter (the president of the United States 1977-1981) studied here, and was a nuclear engineer. This is the campus seen from the Severn River Bridge.
1. Liberated American Students in Budapest. These two young ladies completed their college degrees at the University of Washington, and were travelling around the world (2008). They were roommates.
2. Barnard and Columbia. I met these young ladies during a summer concert by New York Pops Orchestra held at New York's Central Park (July 3, 2004).
3. Princeton students enjoying their late Sunday brunch in the Wilcox Hall dining hall (2001).
4. with Elena Georgieva, in front of the Physics Building of the University of Maryland (April 2000). She is one of my most valuable co-authors in physics.
5. Two American Actresses in New York (2003). There are many interesting people in New York.
6. Americans Mother and Daughter Paris. It is an unusual pleasure to meet American ladies at a Paris cafe to talk about various regions of the United States. I become happier when I meet with both mother and daughter. I like to talk to the mother because I belong to the same generation as hers, and the daughter because I teach young people like her.
7. Another set of Mother and Daughter. I met them at a classy tea room in one of the Ritz-Carleton hotels near Washington, DC. Can you tell who is the mother? They were kind enough to have a photo with me (April 2006).
8. Northwest. These NWA ladies are still cheerful after a tiresome trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Washington's Dulles Airport. This photo was taken on a moving lounge at the Dulles Airport (May 2003). The NorthWest Airlines is an American carrier, and I like the way U.S. airline ladies are dressed, without too much decoration. The world seems to follow the American fashion. I took a NWA flight when I was coming to the United States from Korea in 1954, and NWA has a special meaning to me. I feel quite secure with NWA ladies.
9. American Airlines, during a flight from Miami (Florida, USA) to Cancum (Mexico), July 2004. This photo was taken by
10. Business Class. Experienced ladies serving in the business class cabin during an AA flight from Frankfurt to Chicago (January 2005).
Korean Singers. I become vary happy when I attend Korean parties. I am enjoying a party for those Koreans who came from the North to South during the years 1945 - 50, because they did not like the communist rule being installed in the North.
1. Korean Ladies in Vienna dancing on Karnstner Street (October 2001).
2. Top Lady Physicists from Korea. These two ladies are the leaders of women scientists in Korea. Korea is indeed fortunate to have many bright lady researchers, and they play an increasingly important role in Korea's research community. The lady next to me is Dr. Kwang-Hwa Chung of the Korea Research Institute of Standards. The other lady is Dr. Yong-Hyeon Shin who is Dr. Chung's colleague. I met Dr. Chung in Pittsburgh when she was a student at the Univ. of Pittsburgh in 1975. These ladies were kind enough to came to my office while visiting the Univ. of Maryland in August 2002. Dr. Chung is now the director of Korea Research Insttitute of Science and Standards.
3. Korean Students in Paris.They were travelling around Euopean cities during their winter break (January 2010).
4. Samsung Employees in Copenhagen (2010). They were spending their vacation week in Europe.
5. Two Korean Defectors from the North. I was very happy to have a photo with them near Washingto, DC (2010), because I am also a defector from the North. I came to the South in 1946 before Stalin and Beria of the Soviet Union formally installed in 1948 their Democratic People's Republic of Korea with Kim Il-Sung as their puppet.
6. Korean Airlines (2004). When they come to New York, these Korean Airlines ladies stay in the Holiday Inn located in New York's prosperous Korean town around Broadway and the 32nd Street. This photo was taken on December 24, 2004. These ladies had to spend the Christmas day away from home.