  We analyze the high energy scattering of hadrons in QCD in an effective
theory model inspired from a gravity dual description. The nucleons are
skyrmion-like solutions of a DBI action, and boosted nucleons give pions field
shockwaves necessary for the saturation of the Froissart bound. Nuclei are
analogs of BIon crystals, with the DBI skyrmions forming a fluid with a fixed
inter-nucleon distance. In shockwave collisions one creates scalar (pion field)
``fireballs'' with horizons of nonzero temperature, whose scaling with mass we
calculated. They are analogous to the hydrodynamic ``dumb holes,'' and their
thermal horizons are places where the pion field becomes apparently singular.
The information paradox becomes then a purely field theoretic phenomenon, not
directly related to quantum gravity (except via AdS-CFT).
