Norse mythology involves a gigantic tree named Yggdrasil, whose trunk supports Earth.

  Norse mythology involves a gigantic tree named Yggdrasil, whose trunk supports Earth. This description all on its own is 100% baggage, since it lacks definitions of “tree”, “Earth”, etc. Today, the baggage fraction of this theory could be reduced by describing a tree as a particular arrangement of atoms, and describing this in turn as a particular quantum field theory state