Guinness World Records 2013 Honorees Include Tallest Cat, Tallest Dog And Tallest Donkey. This is a bittersweet time for Debby Maraspini. The 2013 edition of Guinness World Records just came out and her beloved cat, Savannah Islands Trouble -- Trouble for short -- is in the book as the tallest cat ever, with a height of 19 inches.
Refraction is the change in direction of waves that occurs when waves travel from one medium to another. Refraction is always accompanied by a wavelength and speed change. Diffraction is the bending of waves around obstacles and openings. The amount of diffraction increases with increasing wavelength.
Refraction of light is the most commonly observed phenomenon, but any type of wave can refract when it interacts with a medium, for example when sound waves pass from one medium into another or when water waves move into water of a different depth.