Business Insider spoke with expert navigator Tristan Gooley, author of "How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea", about how the light reflections in water have hidden clues to ...

A ripple tank is a transparent shallow tray of water with a light shining down through it onto a white card below. The light allows you to see the motion of the ripples created on the water's ...

but refers to the reflection in a body of water. "They're created by rays of light that pass through raindrops, reflect off the water surface, and then travel upwards." As rainbows are optical and ...

diffuse reflection happens. Instead of forming an image, the reflected light is scattered in all directions. This may cause a distorted image of the object, as occurs with rippling water ...