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Full Idea
Intervals of time can be viewed as primitive, and not decomposable into a series of instants.
Gist of Idea
The primitive parts of time are intervals, not instants
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 09 'in present')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.158
A Reaction
Given that instants are nothing, and intervals are something, the latter are clearly the better candidates to be the parts of time. Is there a smallest interval?