I greatly appreciate everyone's comments (keep 'em coming!).
I have decided to target the gap between Senior High School and Freshman College, where people have gotten curious about science but have not yet been assimilated into the system, trying to make a career out of it. So I'm going to stick with 12th grade writing level and background information, namely algebra, trigonometry, basic geometry, and introductory physics and chemistry. Anything beyond that, like number theory, projective geometry, electronics or complex numbers I am going to add chapters for.
I am not targeting "mainstream" at all (as Larson did), because they are just deeply entrenched in their system and are happy there. As the Pythagorean Maxim states, "do not place your candle against the wall." Better to place the candle where it can light the room.
I plan to break the presentation into different parts, the first part being this introductory material so a reader can just skip the chapters that they already understand.
I did like the suggestion about treating Larson's RS as background material, showing how it was used to get where we are. RS2 actually follows Larson's rules closer than Larson did (perfect symmetry between space and time, for one), keeps the same reciprocal ratio, but is sufficiently different in expression that I think it is a good idea to make it an independent piece of research. (For example, full inclusion of the yin/angular aspect and integration of the cosmic sector.)
I will also include the other prominent authors as well, such as Nick Thomas (counterspace), Steiner (projective geometry) and some of Miles Mathis' ideas (the model he has developed is almost the same as RS2--he uses [a X Y Z] "spins," and I use [R iX jY kZ] quaternion rotations, in almost the same fashion. His "B-photon field" is just the progression of the natural reference system. But, being an artist, has stuck solely with the Material sector side of things as Larson did, so misses the temporal/cosmic connections. But it is encouraging to see an independent researcher coming from a radically different approach come to the same conclusions.)
I would love to know how Gopi got through a P.H.D. without getting hopelessly frustrated, knowing what he knows
Well, he did get hopelessly frustrated at times... that's what Skype chat is for! Particularly when he would use RS concepts to improve the results of an experiment--and his Prof could not understand what he did.
Most people don't realize what goes on in these international Ph.D. programs--and how they abuse the students in them. Gopi could write a book just on that. Some of his friends are still trapped in that system.
I guess the most urgent task for RS comunity is create more RS gurus who can then write a lightweight introduction for curious people
This is "in progress." Several people have moved here to Salt Lake City to work on RS2 to further develop and document the concepts, and a few more are on the way, as part of the
Antiquatis Sanctuary Project. There were 19 people at our last "Science Night," aged from 24-87 and experience levels from hotel management to one of the original engineers that designed Disney's EPCOT, from High School dropouts to Ph.Ds. It is an amazing, diverse group of people getting together to share their ideas without any prejudice--and we do, freely.
Here is an other idea: what about writing an opensource book (using latex for typeseting and git for version controll) that will be demanding enough for the reader to be as deep as possible and a branch that will be easy to read and tell the story without math etc. but informative.
I had done that here on the main RS2 site (Drupal CMS), as anyone with "researcher" privs could edit/write new chapters for the books on the main page, but no one was really interested/able to contribute. I think we need more people familiar with RS2 to do that, and it looks like it may be up to me to do the initial document.
After I get some of the initial chapters done, I'll send it out to a few of the posters here to take a look for further suggestions. May be a while, as I'm working on a couple of RS2 experiments to test my improved atomic model in the real world. I'll post details as I get things built and running.