MSFTS Rep Science T-shirt

The fine print covering the back of this shirt is a real physics paper. "Guidelines to Antigravity" — Robert L. Forward, 1963: a Hughes Aircraft physicist, later a hard sci-fi novelist, working out with a straight face how rotating masses could be arranged to cancel gravity. The sections silk-screened across the shoulders ("Effect of Rotating Masses on Moving Bodies," "Effect of Accelerated Masses on Stationary Bodies") and the figure captions — the "non-Newtonian component of acceleration on a test body below the center of a rotating massive ring" — come straight from its pages, equations included. The front promotes the paper's machinery to logo: a particle-cloud torus ringed by field-line arrows, the letters M-S-F-T-S riding the orbits. MSFTS Rep is Jaden Smith's label and art collective — staging collab pop-ups by 2013 — and this is about the most MSFTS object possible: crystal-shop cosmology backed by an actual citation, wearable proof that the distance between teen mysticism and respectable physics is sometimes one typeface.

Black short sleeve cotton tee with MSFTS Rep Science graphic.

Sourcing
We source these shirts from thrift stores, estate sales, and directly from bootleg and overprint collectors.