אזכור מעללי יה כי אזכרה ממקדם פלאיך "I will mention the wonders of God, for from ancient times I will mention your wonders. The wonders of God hidden in the work of Creation are no less wonderful that if they had been written in the Gemara/Oral Law
I should mention some of the many places in the LeM of Rav Nahman of Uman where learning Physics is thought to be learning the wisdom of God. And that is wisdom that does not depend on the opinion of any person to check and see if it is correct, but rather Nature. One place that comes to mind is טבעו בארץ שעריה "Her gates are buried in the ground." Her gates refers to the depth of understanding of the Torah. They are buried in the ground. This is in Lamentations. That means the depths of knowledge of Torah after the Destruction of the First Temple are buried in the dirt. That is in the very substance of physical matter- that is where to find the wisdom of Torah.
Another place in the LeM is that the hidden Torah in the work of Creation which is the highest Torah.
Another place is that to reveal open Torah to a wicked person would make him worse. So Torah must be revealed to him through secular things.-things that do not seem holy.
The point is there s hidden Torah in mundane things and that one can reveal the hidden Torah inside of secular things. It is possible to serve God through what seem to be secular but in fact in hidden holiness.
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ויתר מהמה בני הזהר עשות ספרים הרבה אין קץ ולהג הרבה יגיעת בשר קהלת י''ב פסוק י''ב This is verse in the Book of Ecclesiastes, "And more so my son be careful. To making many books there is no end and they are a joke and tiring out of flesh."
As my learning partner once told me, "There are too many books." The point is brought out by Rav Shach. He explains books that go into the details of the Gemara -this is a great and important thing. But books that supposedly are about the foundations of faith are a waste of time.
The Midrash Kohelet on this verse says the word "מהמה" is an unusual construction. (It could have said, "מהם.")The reason is to hint to the idea that it refers to מהומה (confusion). Making many books that you see in the religious world just brings more confusion, not clarity.
This is especially so in light of the Rif and Rosh on the Mishna in Sanhedrin (perek Chelek) that explain "outside books" means books that explain the Torah but not based on midrashei Chazal==the explanations of the sages of the Mishna and Gemara.
So outside books does not refer to books on natural science but rather to the vast majority of the stuff the religious are always putting out which all explain the Torah, but never according to any midrash of the sages.
I admit I got tired of the mind tricks the religious are always playing, and decided instead to learn straight Gemara, with the natural sciences, especially Physics and Mathematics. Better to find out what the Torah really says instead of depending on the insane religious world.
The reason to learn Physics is that it does not depend on people's opinions. Thus it connects you what is real. To what is really real, not to people's opinions about what is real. [Besides that there is the point of the Gra that any lack of knowledge in the seven wisdoms results in a hundred times fold lack of knowledge of Torah.]
That is to say, it can be tested. Reality can prove or disprove a theory.
Thus it is objective knowledge not knowledge about what other people think--which is not knowledge at all.
And I should add that I have started with doing the ten times of review of every paragraph. I keep fast learning in reserve, but for now I feel I need to get the idea before going on.]
