It seemed like a good idea to have a simulation restart button to normalise the start position and eventually have more than a single independent simulation. This would require the simulation to run independently of the GUI which up to this point it did not. To implement this I tried running the simulation code in a separate thread having forgotten that Nest is not tread safe and it crashed. The simulation code including Nest currently runs in multiple processes. 

Before attempting to do it myself i asked CoPilot to produce the code attached which I do not understand in detail but this is normal because it uses python features of which I have no knowledge. Up to now. The code runs apart from some 'hopefully simple' details of the button control lost in this conversion

Is this application of interest? 

Is there a standard way to do this?