ELi5: When there’s pervasive smoke in the air, how does closing your windows keep it out of your home?
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If it’s coming from inside you’ll just hotbox yourself if it’s outside wet the towel you use at the bases of the windows
Smoke is solid suspended in the air in addition to gases.
Closing windows will reduce the rate air gets into you house and just that results in less smoke inside.
There are still ways that air gets into a house. In the more traditional building, there are some places air can get in but if the air has to go through a narrow passage it is harder for solids to remain in the air and less to get in. It is not uncommon to have some type of filter material that the air from through.
Some houses are built airtight because you need a way for air to get in and out the air ventilation system handle that. There will be a filter that removes solids in the smoke
You can block went and turn of the ventilation system to minimize the airflow too. Even if there is no air circulation a typical home has enough oxygen for you to survive a couple of weeks. Technically it is the CO2 level that will kill you not the lack of oxygen, a home is still large enough for a couple of weeks.
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