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Thermal energy in a material causes the particles to vibrate.

Particles cannot stop moving altogether, since they would then violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This states that we cannot know a particles speed and position to infinite precision at the same time. A particle in a material that is not jiggling would violate this.

The more and faster that the particles are jiggling, the more energy they must have. If they come into contact with particles that are jiggling less, then that energy spreads. The faster jiggling particles slow down, transferring their energy to the slower particles, which speed up. This is just the transfer of heat from one material to another!

Here's a good video from famous physicist Richard Feynman explaining "jiggling atoms."

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