"If E1 is the emission of photon at one point in space-time, event E2 is the absorption of that photon at the same other point in space time, then the interval between them is always zero"
So how to write down E1 and E2? is that still in E1=p1=(t1, x1, y1, z1) and E2=p2=(t2, x2, y2, z2) ...