My Facebook friend Freddie Thornton made an interesting comment about charge the other day. He noted that there is a big difference between no charge and neutral charge. Yet most literature on the subject regard the two as the same.
I would take that statement one step further and say that charge is everywhere, so there is no such thing as no charge. In the Velcro universe everything is made up of charged particles. The photon has a positive and a negative orb, the atom consists of electrons and protons, and the neutrino is rarely completely neutral.
Massive bodies are full of charge, even if they are electrically neutral. Every atom carries charge.
Between massive bodies, there are neutrinos carrying both positive and negative charge. These neutrinos have imprints of the atoms that they have bounced off of, and they communicate these imprints with each other. The net effect is electric neutrality.
However, due to a small imperfection in how neutrinos communicate repulsion between electrons, there is slightly less repulsion then attraction between massive bodies. This results in the tiny net attraction that we call gravity.
Gravity is a consequence of charge being everywhere, and slightly less repelling than attracting for neutral bodies.
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