In the world of Lithuanian Yeshivas, learning Physics and Math were not high priorities --at least when I was there. On one hand I can understand this because in fact it takes a long time and a lot of effort to gain any kind of understanding of Gemara. So, you really do not want distractions. On the other hand, at some point I noticed that Physics and Metaphysics were considered part of the Gemara by the Rambam. (He writes in the Laws of Learning Torah that the subjects discussed in the first four chapters of the Mishna Torah are in the category of Gemara) Also, Joseph Ibn Pakuda [the author of the Obligations of the Heart]. [In the Obligations of the hearts you see this in perek 3 of behina where he says to learn the wisdom inside of Creation and also (besides that) the spiritually inside of Creation. Clearly two different things. The Metaphysics part you see right on the first page where he talks about the wisdom the Arabs call Metaphysics. So he is not talking about something different than the Rambam. [Still I admit this is not universal among rishonim. Some take a dim view of Aristotle.] But in terms of Post Aristotle Philosophy what would the Rambam and Ibn Pakuda hold by? My own feeling about this issue is that Kant and Hegel would be thought to be legitimate continuations of Metaphysics just as i think modern day Physics would be a legitimate continuation of what the Rambam is calling "Physics". [There are people who are talented in math that are so smart that they make the rest of us feel small. That is why physics envy is ra real thing. People want their pseudo-science field to be respected as if was on the same level as physics. ]