Project: Minkowski space

This is a really terrific question to ask your professor.

Not sure if this will help, but at it's most basic level, Minkowski's contribution (one which was actually conceived by Poincaire years earlier), was to abandon the 3 dimensions of space (height, length, and breadth) as a separate concept and to combine it with time in a mathematical way which is now called "space-time" (consisting of "four dimensions").

In my opinion (not shared by many) the only "practical" benefit to anyone was to physicists doing mathematical computations relating to relative motion by simplifying these tasks. As it is applied, the "practical" consequence is to distort and confuse the concepts of space, time, and motion in ways that make them paradoxical and implausible, if you ask me.