Yeah I'd like that source as well.
About vision on a (sub)atomic level: The human eye is a pretty great sensory organ but I really don't believe that it is constructed so well that electromagnetic waves in the visible spectrum that are emitted by molecules, molecules that move about at an absolutely incredible speed that no brain should be able to keep up with, are refracted perfectly onto the light detecting parts of our corneae.
One thing that I have experienced myself that I do find explainable is that on a fierce dose of LSD more than one time I have lost my concepts of color and saw everything as vibrating energy. I am not saying I could see any kind of vibration slow enough to see any amplitude but it seems as if a part of my brain did not attach meaning or differentiation of color anymore while I could still see that there were differences. What I did see was the same as what I have seen many times eyes closed, which is a sort of golden energy which I take to be pure brain activity. I have no evidence whatsoever for this, but it makes sense to me that when multiple regions of the brain are communicating without the translation / swithboxes or inhibition of cross-over activity (which IIRC is also what happens with synaesthesia) what you get is a sort of universal brain language so to speak. It cannot be interpreted correctly because it is unified and crossing over. While normally brain regions handling separate functions use their own symbolic language on a neurological level, it is like all barriers dissolve between these regions and there is just this chatter and the brain is awash with patterns. And if there is one thing that many of us know from psychedelic experiences it's patterns!
About time perception: It's best to start at the beginning and ask how it is facilitated, what meaning time bears to us as a construct (some say an illusion, which may just be a matter of semantics).
Is it not the relationship we see between subsequent events? Think about how 5 minutes can pass in a flash if you are doing something fun or interesting but it can seem to last an eternity if you are waiting on something, especially if you are in a hurry as if your life depends on it!
That would be compression or dilation. When you are waiting for something the reason for the dilation can perhaps be found in the psychological state of your impatience. Thoughts happen very very quickly compared to 5 minutes or even a second so if you are constantly thinking: "when will the time be up?!... when?... when?.... when when when?" you have compressed thoughts and therefore experience of time is dilated.
In a state of 'fight or flight' or a degree of stress your adrenaline goes up and you are apparently able to compress thoughts as well as actions, isn't that true? The evolutionary use should be obvious as well.
Now take psychedelic experiences. It isn't adrenaline that goes up but I think neurological transduction can, as a result of reinforcement of serotonergic activity. Whether what I just said is kosher or not, I think we can agree that you can get a storm of thoughts - some kind of increased activity that, as at the very least my own experiences tell me, can often compress thinking. That seems to explain the experience of time dilation.
The reverse can also happen with psychedelics but seems to be a little less often and may require resolution of thoughts, patterns of thought or certain ego mechanisms that preoccupies most people naturally. If a balance is achieved, followed by acceptance and subsequently even surrender, more and more dilation of experience can happen... and as a result compression of time. I have felt ego dissolution and the time flew by in some respect because there was nothing there in that time. But it can also feel not like time flew by but like it didn't exist, was irrelevant or meaningless. It felt like ages and a few seconds at the same time, because there was so little 'me' experiencing things that a frame of reference was lost.
I cannot account for things like synchronicity or the experience of looped or circular time (psychedelics + nitrous tends to cause this for me), or a parallel rather than a linear timeline (such as ketamine can produce), not off the top of my head.
But I would look for explanations a little closer to home... even so, what I wrote in this post still bears the correlation, as you correctly put it, to the space-time continuum that seems undetachable from human consciousness. There is a connection, but if you pose a question, make the question less vague to force the subject to be as well. This allows for an explanation that I call 'close enough to home' to answer reasonably.
I still feel you are trying to solve too large puzzles too fast and like I said before in other words my suggestion is: cut the puzzle into smaller puzzles and solve those.
No idea what you think of my view on the experience of time but I consider it a smaller puzzle. Go at it like that and you can connect smaller puzzles into a bigger one after that, and a bigger one after that.
Though if you want to make a huge leap like Einstein don't let me hold you back, please!
I just think you're being over-ambitious, just like my own approach was a few years back. Sometimes I got a compelling idea or a hint towards one out of it, that was fascinating but no more than that. Dial back and you get more done. :D
