Help the nervous lab assistant document the eccentric inventor's experiment. Select the grammatically correct sentence.

The correct answer is The scientist asked whether the time machine would work in the rain.

When reporting a Yes/No question, we use if or whether. The word order changes to a standard statement (Subject + Verb), meaning the subject ("the time machine") comes before the verb. Additionally, the modal verb "will" backshifts to "would" in reported speech.