For thinkers such as Zeno and Parmenides, time and space were unreal and any attempts to measure them doomed to self-contradiction.That<br> <b>defence,</b> after the millennia, remains the best <b>retort</b> to the <b>temporal</b> technicians such as Lodewyck whose work may well have the unacceptable result of getting human beings to run on time.PhysicsFranceEuropeStuart Jeffriesguardian.co.uk<br>