Do they do math or research or just check their email all day. I just want to know. Thanks! Oh, and theoretical not experimental physicists.
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You don't publish papers by reading email all day. When I was doing a theory postdoc, I read a lot of papers, did a ton of computer programming modeling systems, and I did some math. It was a lot of sitting in front of a computer, mostly thinking. Oh, and talking to other people. Lots of that. Mostly about physics.