Where's the best place on the U.S. mainland to escape the coming Zombie Apocalypse?

Statisticians at Cornell University know the answer. These bright boys actually did a complex simulation to answer that question.

They suggest the best place for Americans or anyone else to hide during a hypothetical murderous zombie storm is in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains.

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That means you've got to go to Montana or further up north into British Columbia in Canada.

Researchers believe a Zombie Apocalypse would quickly spread to highly populated cities, but would take weeks or even months to penetrate into less densely populated areas like the Rockies.

The Cornell bright boys in their study, "The Statistical Mechanics of Zombies", also said we should avoid all major cities during the full-scale zombie takeover.

Researchers described their project as an overview of modern epidemiology modeling. They started with differential equations to model a fully connected population, moved on to lattice-based models and ended with a full U.S.-scale simulation of a zombie outbreak across the continental U.S.

The study used various equations that factored in population and rates of zombie infections. The study allowed the statisticians to determine how and where a fictional zombie outbreak would spread across the U.S.

What did the apocalyptic analysis reveal? The Cornell team found the effect of a zombie apocalypse would slow down as the zombies reached less populous areas.

Dense populations would be affected the most quickly and would be rapidly overrun by zombies in a matter of days. But it would take months for zombies to reach places like the northern Rockies.

"At their heart, the simulations are akin to modeling chemical reactions taking place between different elements and, in this case, we have four states a person can be in -- human, infected, zombie, or dead zombie -- with approximately 300 million people", said Alex Alemi, a graduate student.

The study will be discussed on March 5 at the American Physical Society March Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.