system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If dark energy increases and spread apart everything in the universe to the point where atoms are split, wouldn't this actually cause an inferno universe rather then heat death?

To expand a little on this based on the comments:

1. Wouldn't dark energy increase entropy?

2. Wouldn't pulling apart the forces of matter essentially "explode" the entire universe yet heat death requires temperatures to approach absolute zero.
gpt
Bear in mind that despite the name, heat death does not itself actually imply any particular temperature. It implies a universe where energy is distributed evenly, there aren't gradients of hot to cold. It does not mean the universe will be cold, or hot, or lukewarm, necessarily.