Edited sentence: Accordingly, no measurements can take place, as they themselves take time.And the present is merely an extensionless division between past and future.It is vanishingly small in extent, so nothing can happen in it.The past has gone, so it does not exist.There are arguments which go back at least as far as Aristotle's _Physics_ (217b 30ff) according to which it is impossible to measure time, or even that it cannot exist.This problem was transmitted through Augustine to contemporary philosophy, and has yet found no solution.Time is made up of past, present, and future, and a time is the same.Unfortunately, the future has not arrived yet, so it does not exist