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I can understand convection as a classical process where a colder, denser body of fluid displaces a lighter, warmer one under the influence of gravity. But at a molecular level, why do the molecules from a region where they are moving more slowly try to move into a region where molecules are moving more quickly on average?

Erik Foxcroft, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

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