Help Me by Explaining Why Smoking Slower Smokes Cooler

Something something Newton's law of cooling something something physics...
I think it's simply because when you smoke slow the smoke has time to cool on its way to your mouth, allowing the temp to change.
Also, because you're smoking slower, you tend not to draw so hard, keeping the coal smaller and thus generating less heat.

You ever make a fire outdoors on a still day, feeding it slow smokes curls up slowly and you can stand close to the fire, now the wind picks up, smoke rises faster , you stop feeding the fire but it gets hotter as the wind picks up and you have to move away because its a lot hotter, now that is what goes on inside your pipe. The old cajun

A good pipe has an ember and not a fire. Embers burn slowly and can maintain a burn for long-ish periods of time. A lot of fire in the pipe will make the mouth and tobacco hotter and will lead to pain and reduced/changed flavor. Too much heat can change the taste of the tobacco itself and make the flavors unpleasant, adding to that the fact that most mouths don't fare well with steam burns it makes a good case for a cooler, slower smoke.
Just like coaxing a new flame to make a campfire requires gentle airflow, coaxing a small bit of ember slowly through a pipe results in a more pleasant, less frustrating experience. It also takes a good bit of practice with packing, lighting technique and smoking cadence to get a pipe that doesn't go out and delivers that holy grail of a smooth, subtle smoke. I've been smoking steadily for the last 5-6 months and I still only get a perfect smoke some of the time. Don't worry about relighting, it comes with the territory.
Hopefully that makes some sort of sense.

Imagine what a bellows does to a blacksmith's fire.

Think of your pipe as a forge and your mouth as the bellows. The more oxygen the bellows push or pull into the coals the hotter your fire will be. You want smoldering temps not smelting temps. Most blends will taste better with a slow controlled burn versus a hot fast burn. I believe this is due to less moisture created and just more slowly toasting the tobacco below the cherry allowing more volatile flavor molecules to reach your taste buds rather than being completely destroyed from high temperatures in the bowl. That being said it would probably take a few degrees in chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics to understand all the mysterious magic that happens in a smoldering bowl of tobacco. ::

While we're sipping, if the embers keeping the tobacco lit die and the pipe goes out, so what. We just have to give the tobacco a little gentle tamper, then relight the tobacco and get back into the groove.

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Well said!

+1 The old cajun!

U guys have a great way with words

Beautiful explanations

Allan