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Why? Would an understanding of physics help you now, or is it more for fun?
Physics is math that touches the ground. Not only do you avoid the temptation to muck around with "inaccessible cardinals" and things like that, but I get the impression good physicists can just work out a lot of things from first principles.
Physicists have an excellent nose for modeling too.
edit: I don't think knowing more physics would "help me" now, in the sense that I don't need to know more physics to write papers. But I think knowing more physics would help my intellectual development a lot. I am working on it...
I am not sure my experience generalizes, I certainly am not advocating studying physics as a universal piece of advice.
As a physicist, I'd like to say that if you're tempted by inaccessible cardinals, you will still end up mucking about with them, much to the annoyance of some of your cohort.