Dr. Russ Stoneback
@cosmicstudio.io
Science as Art
Founder Cosmic Studio, Former Professor, PhD Physics, Space Scientist, Satellite Instrumentation Designer, Musician, Photonic Guitar Inventor, Programmer, pysat Creator, Crypto, Visual Artist
Prints: cosmicstudio.io/shop
Founder Cosmic Studio, Former Professor, PhD Physics, Space Scientist, Satellite Instrumentation Designer, Musician, Photonic Guitar Inventor, Programmer, pysat Creator, Crypto, Visual Artist
Prints: cosmicstudio.io/shop
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Dr. Russ Stoneback
@cosmicstudio.io
· Dec 10
Hi, I'm Russell! I'm a former physics professor that left academia to create art from my physics research. My visual art comes from the math for my foundational solution to plasma electrodynamics. My music comes from new instruments that use light instead of sound to create music. cosmicstudio.io
Check out the short article on my new kind of guitar in the UT-Austin magazine, the Alcalde. The photonic guitar creates music we can't hear using light. I use my physics and programming expertise to make those behaviors audible. alcalde.texasexes.org/2025/07/long...
Longhorn Makes Waves with the First Photonic Guitar
Russell Stoneback, BS ’03, is an artist who turns deep-space physics into his own unique style of music and visuals. After a decade of lab work studying cosmic phenomena, he founded Cosmic Studio in D...
alcalde.texasexes.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Check out the short article on my new kind of guitar in the UT-Austin magazine, the Alcalde. The photonic guitar creates music we can't hear using light. I use my physics and programming expertise to make those behaviors audible. alcalde.texasexes.org/2025/07/long...
Check out this overview from the Dallas Morning News on how I use science to create art, both visual works and music: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
Science or art? This former UT Dallas physicist’s work blurs the line
Russell Stoneback’s tools help scientists study space — and create beauty along the way.
www.dallasnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Check out this overview from the Dallas Morning News on how I use science to create art, both visual works and music: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
The new frame is up! I think this was the hardest painting job I've done. I wanted the grain to show and I didn't want paint lines, so that meant numerous thin coats and sanding in between. There was so much heat that the paint basically dried on contact. Good news though, it turned out great!
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The new frame is up! I think this was the hardest painting job I've done. I wanted the grain to show and I didn't want paint lines, so that meant numerous thin coats and sanding in between. There was so much heat that the paint basically dried on contact. Good news though, it turned out great!
I'm currently working on a frame for this piece here. This is the first artwork I had printed up to ensure the color gradients worked out in real life. The frame is turning out well but given the labor involved I probably won't take this route again. I have to have the frame finished by Tuesday.
July 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm currently working on a frame for this piece here. This is the first artwork I had printed up to ensure the color gradients worked out in real life. The frame is turning out well but given the labor involved I probably won't take this route again. I have to have the frame finished by Tuesday.
For the first time, view the Earth like plasma does. My artwork, 'Fire in the Sky' emerges directly from my foundational plasma physics work on dynamics. Learn more about our world by enjoying the art or by digging in to the underlying physics. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
July 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For the first time, view the Earth like plasma does. My artwork, 'Fire in the Sky' emerges directly from my foundational plasma physics work on dynamics. Learn more about our world by enjoying the art or by digging in to the underlying physics. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Columbia caved to Trump's demands and not only did Trump not restore grant funding now the U.S. government is directly trying to get Columbia's accreditation removed.
ED has reported to Columbia's accreditor that it "violated" anti-discrimination laws and thus has not met accreditation standards. This is the feds telling an accreditor that they should punish a uni because ED wants them to.
The iron triangle is in such danger...
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The iron triangle is in such danger...
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Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Columbia caved to Trump's demands and not only did Trump not restore grant funding now the U.S. government is directly trying to get Columbia's accreditation removed.
Columbia is actively collaborating with illegal actions by ICE and DHS to attack researchers that come from outside the U.S.. How much ongoing harm is Columbia going to cause because it lacks any semblance of decency or values. www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/l...
Letter From a Columbia PhD Candidate, After Fleeing the United States to Canada
My name is Ranjani Srinivasan. I was a 5th year PhD student at the Department of Urban Planning, GSAPP. I was also a TA in the Urban Studies Department at
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March 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Columbia is actively collaborating with illegal actions by ICE and DHS to attack researchers that come from outside the U.S.. How much ongoing harm is Columbia going to cause because it lacks any semblance of decency or values. www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/l...
Hottest January on record…
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January surprises with its hottest recorded month
"An unexpected record to start things off may presage higher temperatures this year than many of us thought," a climate scientist says.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hottest January on record…
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Location, location, location. Just like in real estate, in physics location can be everything. Pick the right locations and the solutions for global plasma physics are trivial. Pick the wrong locations and a solution may be nearly impossible. #NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
January 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Location, location, location. Just like in real estate, in physics location can be everything. Pick the right locations and the solutions for global plasma physics are trivial. Pick the wrong locations and a solution may be nearly impossible. #NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
Belated #PortfolioDay post!
Hi, I'm Russell, a physicist that uses his research in space science to create art. Physics is gated behind years of study and I'd like for everyone to be able to experience the beauty, depth, and elegance of plasma physics. #SciArt
More at cosmicstudio.io/shop
Hi, I'm Russell, a physicist that uses his research in space science to create art. Physics is gated behind years of study and I'd like for everyone to be able to experience the beauty, depth, and elegance of plasma physics. #SciArt
More at cosmicstudio.io/shop
January 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Belated #PortfolioDay post!
Hi, I'm Russell, a physicist that uses his research in space science to create art. Physics is gated behind years of study and I'd like for everyone to be able to experience the beauty, depth, and elegance of plasma physics. #SciArt
More at cosmicstudio.io/shop
Hi, I'm Russell, a physicist that uses his research in space science to create art. Physics is gated behind years of study and I'd like for everyone to be able to experience the beauty, depth, and elegance of plasma physics. #SciArt
More at cosmicstudio.io/shop
Making progress on transitioning OMMBV from a numpy.distutils build over to Meson. A build system is needed to couple Fortran code, good for numerical performance, to user accessible Python. Not quite working yet.
January 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Making progress on transitioning OMMBV from a numpy.distutils build over to Meson. A build system is needed to couple Fortran code, good for numerical performance, to user accessible Python. Not quite working yet.
So how does my work correctly describe electric fields around the Earth when all of the previous solution attempts failed? I'm so glad you asked!
#NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
#NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
January 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So how does my work correctly describe electric fields around the Earth when all of the previous solution attempts failed? I'm so glad you asked!
#NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
#NASA #Physics #Plasma #SpaceScience #SciArt (1/7)
This is especially cool. I created a new electrostatic solver for magnetic field lines to create independent evidence of how electric fields around the Earth behave. These behaviors drive dynamics in our atmosphere and provide the basis for my art! #Science #NASA #Plasma #SciArt #Landscape (1/6)
January 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is especially cool. I created a new electrostatic solver for magnetic field lines to create independent evidence of how electric fields around the Earth behave. These behaviors drive dynamics in our atmosphere and provide the basis for my art! #Science #NASA #Plasma #SciArt #Landscape (1/6)
Here is even more evidence that the basis I've created is correct, plus a great example of where my art comes from. The plots are the uncertainty of the d vector at default settings, up to mid latitudes (a) and at northern high lats (b). #NASA #SciArt #Plasma #Science #Art #Landscape (1/4)
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Previous solutions for plasma electric fields claimed that only the simplest magnetic fields had an underlying orthogonal basis. Here I demonstrate that all magnetic fields, including complex magnetic fields like the Earth's, don't break known physics as claimed. #Science #NASA #Plasma (1/4)
January 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Previous solutions for plasma electrodynamics claimed, without evidence, that complex magnetic fields are intrinsically non-orthogonal. Here I demonstrate that the supposedly "impossible" orthogonal vector basis I've developed is driven by the magnetic field #NASA #Physics #SpaceScience. (1/9)
January 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Previous solutions for plasma electrodynamics claimed, without evidence, that complex magnetic fields are intrinsically non-orthogonal. Here I demonstrate that the supposedly "impossible" orthogonal vector basis I've developed is driven by the magnetic field #NASA #Physics #SpaceScience. (1/9)
Electromagnetic fields are linear and thus may be described orthogonally. I've produced the first accurate solution for plasma physics that yields orthogonal basis vectors everywhere. These plots demonstrate this feature both along a field line and in slices across the globe. #Science #NASA #Plasma
January 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Explore the universe with science as art! I use my state-of-the-art physics research to create pieces that convey the details of my research in a medium everyone can appreciate. Prints available at cosmicstudio.io/shop . Physics deep dive at: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #art #SciArt
#science #art #SciArt
December 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Explore the universe with science as art! I use my state-of-the-art physics research to create pieces that convey the details of my research in a medium everyone can appreciate. Prints available at cosmicstudio.io/shop . Physics deep dive at: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #art #SciArt
#science #art #SciArt
Understanding Earth's plasma dynamics requires choosing a group of directions. The Meridional direction is upward at the magnetic equator, the Zonal direction is primarily eastward, while the Field-Aligned points along the magnetic field. The non-dominant directions add spiciness. #SciArt #science
December 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Creating art using the first accurate solution for an impossible plasma physics problem enables everyone to view the elegance of my physics. This a view of the Earth from space through plasma. For a physics deep dive: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... #science #SciArt #landscape #nature #art
December 18, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Creating art using the first accurate solution for an impossible plasma physics problem enables everyone to view the elegance of my physics. This a view of the Earth from space through plasma. For a physics deep dive: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... #science #SciArt #landscape #nature #art
So how do we solve for plasma dynamics? First, like any physics problem, we need to define a basis. For plasma that basis depends upon the magnetic field as field lines are turned into wires, altering electric fields. My solution is the first that maintains electric field physics. #science #SciArt
December 17, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Working on the Cosmic Guitar iOS plug-in this week. The CG is a new kind of guitar that is similar to an acoustic guitar. Except instead of wood it is made of metal and uses the resonance of electricity instead of sound to make music. Sounds crazy, but physics is physics. #science #SciArt #guitar
December 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
For decades NASA has launched satellites to study the ionosphere without the physics needed to understand it. For the first time, my research makes it possible to accurately calculate plasma dynamics. I use the same physics to create my art.
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #SciArt
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #SciArt
Orthogonal Electrodynamics in Multipole Magnetic Fields
Electrodynamics investigations of plasma-neutral interactions require basis vectors that bridge geographic and geomagnetic coordinates. We present the first orthogonal basis vectors and coordinates fo...
essopenarchive.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:23 PM
For decades NASA has launched satellites to study the ionosphere without the physics needed to understand it. For the first time, my research makes it possible to accurately calculate plasma dynamics. I use the same physics to create my art.
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #SciArt
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
#science #SciArt
Hi, I'm Russell! I'm a former physics professor that left academia to create art from my physics research. My visual art comes from the math for my foundational solution to plasma electrodynamics. My music comes from new instruments that use light instead of sound to create music. cosmicstudio.io
December 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Hi, I'm Russell! I'm a former physics professor that left academia to create art from my physics research. My visual art comes from the math for my foundational solution to plasma electrodynamics. My music comes from new instruments that use light instead of sound to create music. cosmicstudio.io