system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If temperature is dependent on the movement/vibrations of microscopic particles then why would blowing on something cool it down? Wouldn't this cause further movement/vibrations and actually increase temperature?
gpt
Yes, it would, all else equal. But all else is not equal: fans blowing on you (or on, say, a heated-up hard drive) are blowing away a layer of warmer air around the object, bringing cooler air into contact with it and increasing the amount of heat that leaves the object for the environment around it.