Conceptual question about relativity: Imagine two events--
1. A photon hits a mirror
2. The same photon, after reflecting off of the mirror, hits some other surface.
These two events are separated in both space and time. However, the spacetime separation between the two events is zero.
What does this mean? Normally if the distance between two points is zero, it means that the two points are identical. Are these two events, in some sense, the same event?