Are objects generally neutral or charged? Basically the questions relates to what is taught about electroneutrality and has 2 parts: 


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*Is the overall charge in the universe zero?

*Are objects the world generally neutral or slightly charged, constantly passing a little bit of charge from one to the other on contact? 
 A: The answer involves the current model of the universe. The current model, the Big Bang model, assumes that everything is charge neutral from the beginning of he appearance of the universe almost 14 billion years ago.
The model incorporates the standard model of particle physics and uses it to project the generation of the currently observed universe.
In this model there are conservation laws, some of which are strict, and conservation of  charge is one of them. This at atomic level means that there should be as many electrons as protons in the universe, to keep it neutral. Neutrality exists in the everyday level, since it is the statistically most probable state: due to the attraction of positive to negative charges extra energy must be supplied to separate them and keep them separate.

Are objects the world generally neutral or slightly charged, constantly passing a little bit of charge from one to the other on contact? 

The answer to this is more subtle. At the microlevel of atoms and molecules the electrons exist quantum mechanically in orbitals about the nucleus. These orbitals have shapes which allow for localized electric fields that may generate repulsion ( from electrons) or attraction ( from the less shielded protons in the nucleus) dependent on the shape.


The five d orbitals in ψ(x, y, z)2 form, with a combination diagram showing how they fit together to fill space around an atomic nucleus.

This allows attraction between atoms with the correct orientation in space, and the same happens with molecular orbitals. Like complicated LEGO bricks they "fit" into complex patterns (latices in solids), in the process releasing some electromagnetic energy when they settle at the best fit.
Thus even though objects are generally neutral, the charge distributions allow for attractive or repulsive behavior at close contact.
