>>2083612
First off, this is a thread, the board's name is /qresearch/
Which brings me to your question: We do research on the crumbs Q has given to us, specifically the many mentions of clocks, of winding them & of mirrors in Q's crumbs.
The quintessence of the answer is actually stated up above in the dough to this bread, specifically the 1st & last sentences therein.
It could be a slide but not so giant in fact. The giantest slide would be codename Q turning out to be a larp. But we were there already, and are still here β and chances increase that this "slide" of the giantest nature is none (see the various threads for Q proofs etc).
We're not concernfags, and there's plenty of indications that the clock actually is real.
As to the clock & what's being done: Without explaining to you the complete history of the Q-Clock (I will if you insist), the working hypothesis is that the clock, if used in a certain way, reveals, or better said, points out things within the crumbs (which we have all) that would improve or even extend our understanding of what Q actually has given to us (in terms of information).
The list in e.g. >>2083448 results from a certain way to group messages by timestamps & extracting the last words of these. These last words are then ordered and combined in a certain way, so that they start making sense in the combination that results from the process of correctly selecting & combining them.
In short β "think mirror" β the clock groups the minute markers around it [:MM] outside the clock ( >>2054017 , or outside the colored circle in >>2031990 β check equal colors) into groups of four, which are related via their mirror-symmetry.
Think a "Z" drawn into the clock for example, and the "Z" in such way that you start at [:59], then move to [:01] (these two are mirror symmetric via a vertical axis axis), then go down to [:31] and over to [:29] (pic related read from top, & left to right).
This may be just one aspect of the clock, there are also others, like the arrangement of days calendar days around it, and how these days are connected via happenings in the current day, past days (or likely even future days).
Now I'll have dessert β don't be shy to ask moar, these things are hard to grasp by lurqing only ;).