  An emergent theory of quantum measurement arises directly by considering the
particular subset of many body wavefunctions that can be associated with
classical condensed matter and its interaction with delocalized wavefunctions.
This transfers questions of the "strangeness" of quantum mechanics from the
wavefunction to the macroscopic material itself. An effectively many-worlds
picture of measurement results for long times and induces a natural arrow of
time. The challenging part is then justifying why our macroscopic world is
dominated by such far-from-eigenstate matter. Condensing cold mesoscopic
clusters provide a pathway to a partitioning of a highly correlated many body
wavefunction to long lasting islands composed of classical-like bodies widely
separated in Fock space. Low mass rapidly delocalizing matter that recombines
with the solids "slice" the system into a set of nearby yet very weakly
interacting subsystems weighted according to the Born statistics and yields a
kind of many worlds picture but with the possibility of revived phase
interference on iterative particle desorption, delocalization and readsorption.
A proliferation of low energy photons competes with such a possibility.
Causality problems associated with correlated quantum measurement are resolved
and conserved quantities are preserved for the overall many body function
despite their failure in each observer's bifurcating "slice-path." The
necessity of such a state for a two state logic and reliable discrete state
machine suggests that later stages of the universe's evolution will destroy the
physical underpinnings required for consciousness and the arrow of time even
without heat-death or atomic destruction. Some exotic possibilities outside the
domain of usual quantum measurement are considered such as measurement with
delocalized devices and revival of information from past measurements.
