Eli5: How do heat sinks work?

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Curious how they work. Why do they look like lots of layers of fins.

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heat can only move from hotter stuff to colder stuff for the most part. The easiest way for it to do so is by touching. The fins make the heat touch as much cold stuff as possible to get rid of it.

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