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Relative velocity of photons

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What implications do the relative velocity of photons have ?

 

What do you mean?

 

If you mean the fact that the speed of light is invariant, the the implication is the theory of special relativity.

What implications do the relative velocity of photons have ?

This is a very open ended question.

 

Basically, it means that you can use light as a 'probe of the causal structure of space-time'.

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