Wormholes in Space

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Captain Joy

A wormhole near a gravity well?! Are you crazy? [Hand wave. Hand wave. Hand wave.]

It's not really much of a handwave. If you can have stable wormholes at all, they are going to be extremely large negative masses. A planet would be repelled by them and they'd be attracted to the planet. It would be a really bad idea to put one anywhere near a planet you want to keep.